Teagueland
English edit
Etymology edit
Teague + -land, from Irish Tadhg.
Proper noun edit
Teagueland
- (derogatory, obsolete) Ireland
- 1690, Thomas Brown, “The Cavalcade, and disbanding the Royal Regiment; a Ballad fo Jo. Haynes, 1690”, in Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, 8th edition, volume 4, London: Henry Lintot & Charles Hitch, published 1744, page 275, stanza 16:
- O who'll march for me? now speak any that dare, / A horse and a hundred pounds for him, that's fair; / Dear courtier excuse me from Teagueland and slaughter, / And take, which you please, my wife or my daughter.
- a. 1706, Charles Sackville, The Antiquated Coquet:
- To Teagueland we this beauty owe, / Teagueland her earliest charms did know