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corrigan

corrigan is the alternative spelling of korrigan.

Meaning of korrigan

Noun

korrigan (plural korrigan or korrigans)

  1. A long-haired nocturnal and often malevolent Breton fairy princess; such creatures considered collectively.
    • The Korrigan, our authority further states, can predict the future, assume any form they please, move from place to place with the rapidity of thought, cure maladies by the aid of charms which they communicate to their favourites.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 431

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Proper noun capitalized: Corrigan

Corrigan

  1. A surname.

Forms of corrigan

pluralcorrigans

Questions about corrigan

What does corrigan mean?
Corrigan means a surname.
What is corrigan the alternative spelling of?
Corrigan is the alternative spelling of korrigan.
What part of speech is corrigan?
Corrigan is a proper noun.

Words near corrigan in the dictionary

  1. Corriedale
  2. Corriedales
  3. Corrientes
  4. Corrier
  5. corries
  6. corrigan
  7. corrigans
  8. corrigate
  9. corrigated
  10. corrigates
  11. corrigating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: corrigan (page history and authors); Corrigan (page history and authors); korrigan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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