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Definition: SPALPEEN |
SPALPEENNoun1. A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. |
Date "SPALPEEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Note: Spalpeen \Spal"peen\, noun. [Ir. spailpin, from spailp beau, pride, self-conceit.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Language | Translations for "SPALPEEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | njeri që bën puna të rënda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хлапак (loon, punk, shaver, urchin, yob, youngling), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spiv, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mezei bérmunkás írországban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alpeenspay tratante (kite, knave, knavish, loon, ne'er-do-well, picaroon, rascal, rogue, roguish, scamp, scapegrace, sinner, sirrah, vagabond, wheeler-dealer), patife (caitiff, cheat, crook, heavy, knave, mean-spirited, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, rascal, rascally, reprobate, rogue, rotter, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scoundrelly, vagabond, villain, wretch), maroto (cheat, crook, dratted, kite, knave, rogue, roguish, scamp, scoundrel, wheeler-dealer). (various references) негодяй (brat, coyote, dastard, gallows bird, gallows-bird, hound, knave, loon, man of Belial, miscreant, rascal, reprobate, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, villain, wretch). (various references) običan radnik, hulja (blackguard, bugger, dastard, scamp). (various references) obrero no especializado. (various references) alçak herif (bugger, dastard, rascal, scoundrel, skunk, swab, wretch). (various references) чорнороб (laborer, labourer, navvy), нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, shack, skulk, waster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPALPEEN": spalpeens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: spelean. | |
-2 letters: aneles, appels, apples, asleep, elapse, nappes, panels, peasen, planes, please, spleen. | |
-3 letters: anele, appel, apple, aspen, easel, elans, lanes, lapse, leans, leaps, lease, lenes, lense, napes, nappe, neaps, neeps, pales, palps, panel, panes, peals, peans, pease, peels, peens, peeps, peles, penal, penes, pepla, plane, plans, pleas, plena, salep, sepal, sleep, sneap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: spalpeens. | |
+2 letters: peneplains, peneplanes, pineapples, superplane. | |
+3 letters: hyperplanes, planisphere, superplanes. | |
+4 letters: antiepilepsy, inappeasable, planispheres, plecopterans, supplemental, unappeasable. | |
+5 letters: apprehensible, apprehensibly, doppelgangers, lepidopterans, pentaploidies, premenopausal, prosencephala, superpersonal, supplementals, supplementary, upperclassmen. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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