lurikeen

plural lurikeens

1. IrelandalternativeAlternative form of leprechaun.

   In the year 1825, a lurikeen's shoe was exhibited in the office of the Carlow Post for some months - a genuine one - for what clumsy hands of flesh, blood, and bone, could have fashioned the delicate little thing?

   1864 June 29, “Fairy Mythology in Ireland”, in The Dublin University Magazine, Dublin, page 647, column 2

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   [I]f she wishes to see them at their sport, she has only to make a ring out of a thraneen, and look at them through it, and she will see them in all their bravery with their fox-glove caps and green jerkins, capering to the sound of a bag-pipe, with a lurikeen playing it, and he sitting on a fairy mushroom; but she will never see a stim with that eye again.

   1869, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, page 6