boreen

/ ˈboːriːn /

noun

Origin of boreen¹

C19: from Irish Gaelic bóithrín , diminutive of bóthar road

Little she thought that it was back at the Crooked Boreen by then, near five good miles away!

Follow this road until you come to a boreen on the side of your thumb-hand.

He brought the saint down to a boreen, and showed him the bull in the field and said to him, "Take him with you now if you can."

Andy Smith has a horse, if he'd lend it; and there's a short road by Hogan's boreen.

It was so overgrown with weeds and thistles, and so strewn with big boulders, that it was more like a boreen than decent fields.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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