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Limerick lass
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colleen
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Word definitions for colleen in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fem. proper name, from Irish cailin "girl," diminutive of caile "girl, woman."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Colleen is a common English language name of Irish origin and a generic term for Irish women or girls, from the Irish cailín ( caile , countrywoman). It may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colleen \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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 girl 2 young single woman
Usage examples of colleen.
If a young bachelor only talks sensible to a sensible colleen he has a good chanst to stay a bachelor.
Colleen told him she knew the bookers and offered to work it out for him.
Generally the Lewises had better control of their dog, though, Colleen thought.
He and Colleen were meeting Fallon and Duncan in New York at the end of August for a big meeting scheduled with Tribeca Productions.
Stand-Up Sit Down show, Colleen told him she knew the bookers and offered to work it out for him.
Colleen needed an ally, someone to commiserate with and share her outrage.
Harlan had first told her that Dana was pregnant, Colleen felt mixed emotions.
Even before she had come to live with her and Harlan, Colleen often had had serious and intimate discussions with Dana about boys and romance.
To Colleen, when she drove through the village and saw the dark windows and empty streets, it appeared as though the world around her had gone into hibernation.
She wore a bright red cotton nightgown, one that Harlan had just bought for her, at her request, which was something Colleen thought was odd, since she knew Dana wasn't very fond of red, especially bright red.
Dana squeezed Colleen's hand for emphasis and looked so directly and so hard into her face that Colleen blushed.
The night after their baby's death and the subsequent adoption, Harlan had told Colleen all of it, and Colleen remembered thinking what it would have been like for Dana to come home without a child and confront that crib.
Now, with Harlan downstairs cooking Dana's supper, Colleen expected they would have one of their intimate conversations.
The action caught Dana's attention, and she spun around to confront Colleen in the bedroom doorway.
She snapped on the overhead light fixture and the room exploded in a hot, overwhelming brightness that made Colleen shade her eyes and squint.