Teague

Definitions

1. A male given name from Irish.
2. An Irishman.
   derogatory
3. A surname from Irish.
4. A city in Freestone County, Texas, United States.

Examples

“Let⟳ not poor Teg and Shone / Vender from der houses, / Lest dey be quite undone / In der very Trouses”

“With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, / We into no Covenant enter⟳, nor League.”

“He is not so nice as his Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum; he shall gulp ye down the rankest Stinkibus with as good a Gusto, as a Teague does Usquenaugh, and not be a Doit the worse for it.”

“Sempronious, in the second act, comes back once more in the same morning to the governor's hall, to carry⟳ on the conspiracy with Syphax against the governor, his country, and his family; which is so stupid, that it is below the wisdom of the O—'s, the Mac's, and the Teague's; even Eustace Cummins himself would never have⟳ gone to Justice-hall to have⟳ conspired against the government.”

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