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Definition of Sleeveen
1. a crafty, smooth-talking person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeveen
Literary usage of Sleeveen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Banks of the Boro: A Chronicle of the County of Wexford by Patrick Kennedy (1867)
"sleeveen.—Well, well, it is some comfort to poor slaves in this world, that their
masters must make an exchange with thom in the next life any way, ..."
2. Evenings in the Duffrey by Patrick Kennedy (1875)
"Edward, take care of her beauty getting entangled with .you, as sleeveen said".
" Oh, bother yourself and sleeveen! A word or look of love has not passed ..."
3. Racing Calendar by Robert J. Hunter (1812)
"sleeveen, by Jerry Sneak, 3 yrs old, 6st. ... sleeveen, by Jerry Sneak, 3 yrs
old, 7st. one round of the Course—Mr. Isaac staked ..."
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