Meaning of Colleen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A girl.
   Ireland
2. A female given name from English or Irish.
3. A young single woman.
   Ireland

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Examples

“Her name⟳ is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch⟳ - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.”

“Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.”

“So here was Timothy McShanus deserting the baked meats, to say⟳ nothing of his convenient corner in the buffet, to go out and stare⟳ at a red shepherdess with picture books and maizypop to sell⟳. And what kind of a colleen was it that he saw⟳? […] Young as she was—and I supposed her to be about eighteen—her figure⟳ would have⟳ given her five years more according to our northern ideas; […]”

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