girleenn.
/ˈɡəːliːn/, /ɡəːˈliːn/, U.S. /ˈɡərlin/, /ˌɡərˈlin/, Irish English /ɡərˈliːn/ Irish English.
A girl; a young woman.
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maiden-childeOE
maidenOE
maidc1275
maid-childc1275
wenchc1290
thernec1300
lassc1325
maidenkinc1330
child-womana1382
girlc1400
pucelle1439
maidkin1440
mawther1440
mop1466
woman-child?1515
bonnea1529
urchina1535
kinchin-mort1567
dandiprat1582
prill1587
sluta1592
little girl1603
maggie1603
tendril1603
squall1607
childa1616
filly1616
vriester1652
miss1668
gilpie1720
lassie1725
laddess1768
jeune fillea1777
bitch1785
girly?1786
gal1795
ladyling1807
missikin1815
colleen1828
girleen1833
snowdrop1833
pinafore1836
chica1843
fillette1847
charity-girl1848
urchiness1852
Mädchen1854
gel1857
pusill1884
backfisch1888
girly-girly1888
cliner1895
tittie1918
weeny1929
bobby-soxer1944
1833 Lady Morgan Manor Sackville i, in Dramatic Scenes I. 6 Judy, run, my girleen, with the fork, and kill them divils of dogs.
1882 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Freres I. ii. 22 You were just a slip of girleen then, and now you are an elegant young lady.
1934 P. Lynch Turf-cutter's Donkey viii. 62 What in the wide world's wrong, girleen?
1978 T. Murphy Crucial Week in Life Grocer's Assistant i. 13 Heeding that hussy of a clotty of a plótha of a streeleen of an ownshook of a lebidjeh of a girleen that's working above in the bank.
2002 Book Nov.–Dec. 70/1 Mary's heart went out to the girleen: if she took the crystal she'd give it to her mother, of course, and never be allowed to touch it again.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1833- to be on about
- to be on all fours
- to be on another planet
- to be on at
- to be on days
- to be on different planet
- to be on edge
- to be on for
- to be on heckle pins
- to be on her, trial
- to be on his trial
- to be on honour
- to be on its trial
- to be on lates
- to be on light duty
- to be on losing
- to be on nodding terms
- to be on nodding terms with
- to be on occasionally on the edge
- to be on occasionally upon edge
- to be on one's feet
- to be on one's game
- to be on one's honour
- to be on one's last go-round
- to be on one's last goround