sleiveen

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/ˈsliːviːn/

noun

A dishonest person; a trickster, usually from a rural area.

OriginIrish slíghbhín →
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Meanings

nounsleiveen (plural sleiveens)

plural sleiveens · alternative sleeveen · alternative sleveen

  1. IrelandNewfoundlandA dishonest person; a trickster, usually from a rural area.

    In trust he took John's lands; / Sleiveens were all his race

    1889, WB Yeats, The Ballad of Father O'Hart
    1 more example

    You blackened, filthy sleeveen liar. I curse the living day I ever let you near me.

    2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 298

Origin

  1. Irishslíghbhín
  2. Englishsleiveen

From Irish slíghbhín, slíbhín, with the same meaning; from sliabh (“mountain”) (hence the implication that the person is rural).

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Translations

Finnish koijari, sluibari
  • koijaridishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • sluibaridishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
French escroc, filou
  • escrocdishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • filoudishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • aigrefindishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • fripondishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • larrondishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • chevalier d'industriedishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • tricheurdishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
Irish slíghbhín, slíbhín
  • slíghbhíndishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • slíbhíndishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
Italian truffatore, mariolo
  • truffatoredishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • mariolodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • farabuttodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • imbroglionedishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • sbarazzinodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • birichinodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
Russian обма́нщик, обма́нщица
  • обма́нщик (obmánščik)dishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • обма́нщица (obmánščica)dishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
Spanish ratero, timador
  • raterodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • timadordishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • petardistadishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • estafadordishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • caballero de industriadishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • pícarodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • bribóndishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • tunantedishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • truhándishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
  • taimadodishonest person; trickster, sly, disingenuous
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