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boneen Irish.|bəˈniːn|
Also bonyeen.
[ad. Ir. bainbhín sucking-pig, f. banbh pig + -ín dim. suffix.]
A young pig.
1841Lever C. O'Malley lxxxv, What's that you have dragging there behind you? A boneen, sir. 1855Mundy Antipodes (ed. 3) xviii. 438 The wretched shieling of poor Paddy, with his dudeen, his caubeen, his boneen. 1892E. Lawless Grania I. iv. 22 The relative number of cows, turkeys, feather-beds, boneens, black pots and the like. 1892Yeats C'tess Kathleen iii. 47, I in image of a nine-monthed bonyeen. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 106 A sow with nine boneen. |