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insense him into his letters.' 'I insensed him into the way the job was to be done.' [Accent on -sense´.]
- In tow with; in close acquaintance with, courting. John is in tow with Jane Sullivan.
- Ire, sometimes ira; children who go barefoot sometimes get ire in the feet; i.e. the skin chapped and very sore. Also an inflamed spot on the skin rendered sore by being rubbed with some coarse seam, &c.
- Irish language; influence of, on our dialect, 1, 23.
- Jackeen; a nickname for a conceited Dublin citizen of the lower class.
- Jack Lattin, 172.
- Jap or jop; to splash with mud. (Ulster.)
- Jaw; impudent talk: jawing; scolding, abusing:—
- 'He looked in my face and he gave me some jaw,
- Saying "what brought you over from Erin-go-braw?"'
- (Irish Folk Song.)
- Jingle; one of Bianconi's long cars.
- Johnny Magorey; a hip or dog-haw; the fruit of the dog-rose. (Central and Eastern counties.)
- Join; to begin at anything; 'the child joined to cry'; 'my leg joined to pain me'; 'the man joined to plough.' (North.)
- Jokawn; an oaten stem cut off above the joint, with a tongue cut in it, which sounds a rude kind of music when blown by the mouth. (Limerick.) Irish geocán, same sound and meaning.
- Jowlter, fish-jowlter; a person who hawks about fish through the country, to sell. (South.)
- Just: often used as a final expletive—more in
