tatterara

alternative tattarara · alternative tatarara

1. Irelanddatedno pluralcommotion, noise; fuss, bother

   Very soon I heard the tatterara coming up the road. 'They're coming!' I said and I was all agog.

   1973 [1991] Bryan MacMahon [translation from the Irish of Peig Sayers] Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island →ISBN (Syracuse University Press), p.58

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   In the midst of our fun, a tremendous tatterara of the dining-room bell struck upon our hearts. " That is Sir Charles himself," cried Jones ; " I know his impatient ring."

   1852, M.G. Robinson, The life and adventures of James Kelly O'Dwyer, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 307

   Thus it was in Belfast, where a publisher invited the most terrible tatterara in the Spring of 1976 by publishing a very slim volume, "Best Belfast Jokes" under the rather original imprint Minnie-Ha-Ha Press.

   1976 The Recorder (American Irish Historical Society) Vol.37, p.37