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Definition of Omadhaun
1. a fool [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Omadhaun
Literary usage of Omadhaun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... you omadhaun, and pay whatever he asks, and get me the letter." "Go back,you
scoundrel ! or I'll horsewhip you; and if you're longer than an hour, ..."
2. Parnellism and Crime by James Hannen Hannen (1889)
"not very wise, others the mere froth and foolishness of witless " omadhaun," and
only preserved in that phonetic museum known as a Royal Irish .constable's ..."
3. Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost, Sydney Richmond Burleigh (1900)
"It's the stupid omadhaun he is," said the other man. " Oh, and it was me that
was the omadhaun, ..."
4. The Columbian Magazine edited by John Inman, Robert A. West, Stephen M. Chester, Darius Mead (1845)
"Why, to lave me stuck here like a post and to go off wid that omadhaun Pether."
" Well, it was quare, sure enough," replied Jim, without the slightest idea ..."
5. Bookless Lessons for the Teacher-mother by Ella Frances Lynch (1922)
"A man died recently in Minnesota who from the time he was nine until he was
seventeen was known to his neighbors as the omadhaun, which is Gaelic for ..."
6. Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1901)
"At the far end of the row lives "omadhaun Pat. ... Little omadhaun Pat is pale,
hollow-eyed, and thin; but that, his mother says, is "because he is ..."
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