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Definition of Spalpeen
1. n. A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.
Definition of Spalpeen
1. Noun. (Irish) A poor migratory farm worker in Ireland, often viewed as a rascal or mischievous and cunning person. ¹
2. Noun. (Irish) A good-for-nothing person, often used so-named during a good humored ridicule. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spalpeen
1. a rascal [n -S] - See also: rascal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spalpeen
Literary usage of Spalpeen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, George Cruikshank (1839)
"READER,—I am going to tel! you a story about an Irish spalpeen, —which I heard
not long since in the county of Clare. I wish that some of those young ladies ..."
2. A Search for Fortune: The Autobiography of a Younger Son, a Narrative of by Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall (1878)
"... reappearance—The little spalpeen—A bad lot. VERY little could be seen of the
city of Rosario from the river, as the banks upon which it is built are of ..."
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