Meanings
- derogatoryobsoleteIreland
To Teagueland we this beauty owe, / Teagueland her earliest charms did know
a. 1706, Charles Sackville, The Antiquated Coquet1 more example
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.
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
Origin
- IrishTadhg
- EnglishTeagueland
From Teague + -land, from Irish Tadhg.
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