| 释义 |
girleen Anglo-Irish.|ˈgɜːliːn|
[f. girl n. + -een, dim. suffix (= Irish -ín as in colleen): cf. squireen, buckeen.]
A young girl.
1836H. F. Chorley Mem. Mrs. Hemans (1837) II. 213 The light-hearted gossoons and girleens of Dublin. 1882Mrs. Alexander Freres I. ii. 22 You were just a slip of girleen then, and now you are an elegant young lady. |