Definitions For Spalpeen
Noun
SPALPEEN (plural SPALPEENs) (Irish) A poor migratory farm worker in ireland, often viewed as a rascal or mischievous and cunning person. (Irish, sometimes, affectionate) A good-for-nothing person.Quotations
1979, w:thomas flanagan, thomas flanagan, The Year of the French (New York: The New York Review of Books): : "And they stood you before the magistrates like a spalpeen or a tinker." : "Sure the French wouldn't bring with them barrels of coppers for the spalpeens of Connaught. It is murder and bloodshed they would bring." 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea (Vintage 2003), page 25: : The men were mainly evicted farmers from Connaught and West Cork, beggared spalpeens from Carlow and Waterford; a cooper, some farriers, a horse-knacker from Kerry; a couple of Galway fishermen who had managed to sell their nets.See also
guttersnipeEtymology
A late 18th-century term, from {{etyl, ga, en}} spailpín.Is Spalpeen a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
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Scrabble US
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Scrabble UK
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English International (SOWPODS)
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Points in Different Games
Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
16
The word Spalpeen is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends