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Mulligan stew   /mˈəlɪgən stu/   Listen
Mulligan stew

noun
1.
Irish version of burgoo.  Synonyms: Irish burgoo, mulligan.






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"Mulligan stew" Quotes from Famous Books



... I've one eye in mournin', That's becaze I disputed his right, To tak' and spind all my week's earnin's At Tim Mulligan's wake, Sunday night. ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... dog that day in the saloon more to thwart the designs of Pete Mulligan, the head of the gang and an old enemy, than for any compassion for the dog itself; but after he had taken the little animal home he rather enjoyed the slavish devotion which—in the dog's mind—seemed evidently ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... may have been right, or else it was only his dog's liver that was wrong, for very soon Elixir would keep us up half the night shouting offensive epithets across our wall at Mulligan's dog, who hurled them back at him. Mulligan, who is a light sleeper, was much annoyed, and wrote O'Brien eight pages about it. He mentioned that he was a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and that it was positive cruelty to keep these two animals separated ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917 • Various

... Ellen Kelly. They agree not to take advantage of each other in wooing her, and go to the Philippines together as soldiers. There Garvey, leading a charge, is shot through the head, but Mulligan goes on and receives a medal for his bravery. Garvey recovers, but is blind for life. On their return to America Mulligan finds Ellen's face terribly mutilated by an accident. He would still gladly marry her; but he makes Garvey believe ...
— Short Story Writing - A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story • Charles Raymond Barrett

... female, forsake the synagogue for the sixpenny theatre or penny hop; the Jew to take up with an Irish female of loose character, and the Jewess with a musician of the Guards, or the Tipperary servant of Captain Mulligan. With respect to the gypsies, it is making the women what they never were before—harlots; and the men what they never were before—careless fathers and husbands. It has made the daughter of Ursula the chaste take up ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow



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