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colleen

Pronunciation:  'kâleen

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 Definition: [n]  an Irish girl
 
 See Also: fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Col*leen"\, n. [Ir. cailin.]
A girl; a maiden. [Anglo-Irish]

      Of all the colleens in the land Sweet Mollie is the
      daisy.                                   --The Century.

 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: babe, baby, broad, chick, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, doll, filly, frail, gal, girl, girlie, heifer, hoyden, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, little missy, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, miss, missy, nymphet, piece, romp, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, skirt, slip, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, virgin, wench, young creature, young thing
 

 

 

 

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