Etymology

pookaun

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Today it means: A kind of small fishing boat from the region of Galway in Ireland. Full definition →

Irish púcán
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The story

  1. Irish · borrowed frompúcán“fishing-smack”
  2. English todaypookaun

Borrowed from Irish púcán (“fishing-smack”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.