> By accident I just came across "ballop" in Warrick's dictionary. The
> title really means "the well-filled codpiece".
'Ballop' is still common parlance on the streets of Edinburgh. Some years ago
I was part of a band that toured Germany playing mostly Irish stuff, as it was
v popular over there.
We did a set of Kerry slides, and took off the Chieftains by singing a verse
to one of the tunes. Peter McClements (fiddler of this parish) composed a
Limerick specially for this, which started 'There was a young woman named
Madge...'. The 3rd line featured 'ballop'.
Derek
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