| 单词 | sleeveen |
| 释义 | sleeveen Ir. and Newfoundland.|ˈsliːviːn, sliːˈviːn|
Also sleiveen, slieveen.
[ad. Ir. slíghbhín, slíbhín sly person, trickster.]
An untrustworthy or cunning person.
1834S. Lover Legends & Stories of Ireland (Ser. 2) 295 How the man was chated by a sleeveen vagabone. 1888W. B. Yeats Fairy & Folk Tales Irish Peasantry 220 In trust took he John's lands,—Sleiveens were all his race. 1892J. Barlow Irish Idylls viii. 215 He isn't the slieveen to be playin' fast and loose wid your dacint little slip of a girl. 1955L. E. F. English Historic Newfoundland 36 Slieveen, a deceitful person. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 104 A thief, a fly-be-night, a sleeveen and a baucagh-shool. 1973G. Pinsent Rowdyman 42 Mr. Lowe told Will all about his friendship with our father and about how decent a fellow he was, but that Will had ‘the looks of a sleeveen about him’. Ibid. 53 Well, I took my eyes off him for a half a second and that sleeveen jabbed me in the gut with two hard fingers. 1975D. O'Sullivan in D. Marcus Best Irish Short Stories (1977) II. 95 ‘O, the crabbed, conniving little sleeveen.’ ‘She's up in London now, dancing in the Harp.’ |
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