laupeen
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Yola[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
laupe (“to leap”) + -een (“diminutive suffix, borrowed from Irish -ín”), literally little leaper. Compare also harpleat (“sniper”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
laupeen
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52