colleen
noun
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Pronunciation: /kəˈliːn/ / /kɒˈliːn/ / /kəˈlin/
name
Etymology: From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Colleen can also be interpreted as a variant of Coleen, which was a product of marketing by the Hollywood film industry (to promote a new starlet in the 1920s).
- A female given name from English or Irish.
“Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Irish cailínbor. English colleen Borrowed from Irish cailín.
- A girl.
- A young single woman.
“Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.”
“So here was Timothy McShanus deserting the baked meats, to say nothing of his convenient corner in the buffet, to go out and stare at a red shepherdess with picture books and maizypop to sell. And what kind of a colleen was it that he saw? […] Young as she was—and I supposed her to be about eighteen—her figure would have given her five years more according to our northern ideas; […]”