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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Irish superstition, a pygmy sprite, supposed to grind meal, make shoes, and do other services for persons who treat him well, and, if spellbound by a fixed gaze, to give up an inexhaustible fairy purse.
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At times I see you like a little boy hunting the leprechawn ....
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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