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drisheens

drisheens is the plural of drisheen.

Meaning of drisheen

Noun

drisheen (plural drisheens)

  1. (Ireland) A type of Irish sausage made from pigs' blood, suet, and salt; an Irish version of black pudding.
    • Mr Dedalus had ordered drisheens for breakfast and during the meal he crossexamined the waiter for local news.1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, section 86

Questions about drisheens

What is drisheens the plural of?
Drisheens is the plural of drisheen.

Words near drisheens in the dictionary

  1. DRIs
  2. Driscoll
  3. Driscolls
  4. driselase
  5. drisheen
  6. drisheens
  7. Driskell
  8. Driskells
  9. Driskill
  10. Driskills
  11. Dritan

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