“boreen”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

boreen

释义

boreen Anglo-Irish.|bɔːˈriːn|
Also bohreen, bohereen, bohir-.
[f. Irish bóthar (pronounced boːhər), a road + -een, diminutive suffix, a. Ir. -ín.]
A lane, a narrow road; also transf. an opening in a crowd. (Used only when Irish subjects are referred to.)
1841S. C. Hall Ireland I. 77 At my brother's, a piece down that boreen.Ibid. 287 Wheresomever he went, the people made a bohreen for him.1882R. Downey Congreve's Doom in Tinsley's Mag., At length we reached a narrow boreen, down which we drove.1899Somerville & ‘Ross’ Irish R.M. 138, I thought you were a dead man when you faced him at the bohereen.1920Cornh. Mag. Oct. 494 A campaign among bogs and bohireens.1921Blackw. Mag. Jan. 11/1 The grass-grown bohereen leading over the crest of the hill.1953N. Fitzgerald Midsummer Malice xv. 189 The quarter of a mile of bohereen that connected the stables to the main road.

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