Derryjellybies

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  • dirigible: blimps, airships; balloons that can be steered
  • derry: (slang) an eye-glass; an alarm; a hue-and-cry → the term is thought to be derived from Derry Down Triangle, a nickname for Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, MP for County Down (1790), Irish Secretary (1797), Foreign Secretary (1812), 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1821)
  • jelly babies or jelly beans
  • Mrs Jellyby: a character in Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House; an enthusiastic, unthinking philanthropist who forgets that charity should begin at home