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Jackeen

British

/ dʒæˈkiːn /

noun

a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner

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Etymology

Origin of Jackeen

C19: from proper name Jack + -een , Irish diminutive suffix, from Irish Gaelic -ín

Example Sentences

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Barnaby Baxter is a five-year-old who has dreamed up a fairy godfather named Jackeen J. O'Malley.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jackeen is to be 'an engineer, by the sea,' so it seems, and Broona is to be a farmer's wife with a tiny red bill-book like Mrs. Colquhoun's.

From Penelope's Irish Experiences by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

The fear of being turned out made him for the nonce refrain from that vengeance of abuse which his education as a Dublin Jackeen well qualified him to inflict.

From The Kellys and the O'Kellys by Trollope, Anthony

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