Meanings
plural thraneens
- poeticAn insignificant amount; a trifle.
- A stem of dried grass.
1 more example
[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
Origin
- Irishtráithnín
- Irishtráithnín
- Englishthraneen
Borrowed from Irish tráithnín (“a stem of dried grass”).
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