Teagueland

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Ireland derogatory, obsolete

    "O who'll march for me? now speak any that dare, / A horse and a hundred pounds for him, that's fair; / Dear courtier excuse me from Teagueland and slaughter, / And take, which you please, my wife or my daughter."

Example

More examples

"O who'll march for me? now speak any that dare, / A horse and a hundred pounds for him, that's fair; / Dear courtier excuse me from Teagueland and slaughter, / And take, which you please, my wife or my daughter."

Etymology

From Teague + -land, from Irish Tadhg.

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