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thraneen

thraneen noun: an insignificant amount; a trifle.

Noun

thraneen (plural thraneens)

  1. (poetic) An insignificant amount; a trifle.
  2. A stem of dried grass.
    • [I]f she wishes to see them at their sport, she has only to make a ring out of a thraneen, and look at them through it, and she will see them in all their bravery with their fox-glove caps and green jerkins, capering to the sound of a bag-pipe, with a lurikeen playing it, and he sitting on a fairy...1869, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, page 6

Forms of thraneen

pluralthraneens

Origin of thraneen

Borrowed from Irish tráithnín (“a stem of dried grass”).

Questions about thraneen

What does thraneen mean?
Thraneen means an insignificant amount; a trifle.
What part of speech is thraneen?
Thraneen is a noun.
What is the plural of thraneen?
The plural of thraneen is thraneens.

Words near thraneen in the dictionary

  1. thrallers
  2. thralling
  3. thralls
  4. thran
  5. Thrandeston
  6. thraneen
  7. thraneens
  8. thrang
  9. thranged
  10. thranging
  11. thrangs

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