girleen
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girleen (plural girleens)
- (Ireland) A young woman, a girl. [from 19th c.]
- 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 67:
- They see us shout girleens, girleens! Decide they're coming down to sit by us in our hidey hole.