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Definition of Crubeen
1. a pig's trotter [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crubeen
Literary usage of Crubeen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork.: Containing a by Charles Smith, Thomas Crofton Croker, Richard Caulfield (1893)
"Upon these they used " to lunch on the battlements of this bridge, and always
speaking about their day's "sport, said 'they had lunch on crubeen Bridge. ..."
2. The Place-names of Decies by Patrick Power (1907)
"... the opening of the Square to its present size this led north from the original
Square to Blackfriars. The present Arundel Lane—popularly " crubeen ..."
3. Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy (1866)
"This damp grass is very different from our warm room," says one; " I was obliged
to drop a fine pig's crubeen (foot)," says another; " I didn't get a ..."
4. The History of Bandon, and the Principal Towns in the West Riding of County by George Bennett (1869)
"... and fried ; but the generally received opinion was that it was bog-wood, warmed
in a pot of cabbage-water, into which was flung a crubeen or two, ..."
5. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork.: Containing a by Charles Smith, Thomas Crofton Croker, Richard Caulfield (1893)
"Upon these they used " to lunch on the battlements of this bridge, and always
speaking about their day's "sport, said 'they had lunch on crubeen Bridge. ..."
6. The Place-names of Decies by Patrick Power (1907)
"... the opening of the Square to its present size this led north from the original
Square to Blackfriars. The present Arundel Lane—popularly " crubeen ..."
7. Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts by Patrick Kennedy (1866)
"This damp grass is very different from our warm room," says one; " I was obliged
to drop a fine pig's crubeen (foot)," says another; " I didn't get a ..."
8. The History of Bandon, and the Principal Towns in the West Riding of County by George Bennett (1869)
"... and fried ; but the generally received opinion was that it was bog-wood, warmed
in a pot of cabbage-water, into which was flung a crubeen or two, ..."
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