Teagueland

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proper noun

Ireland

Scrabble 12

Meanings

proper noun
  1. derogatoryobsoleteIreland

    To Teagueland we this beauty owe, / Teagueland her earliest charms did know

    a. 1706, Charles Sackville, The Antiquated Coquet
    1 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

  1. IrishTadhg
  2. EnglishTeagueland

From Teague + -land, from Irish Tadhg.

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APA

Teagueland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teagueland

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“Teagueland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Teagueland. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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