spalpeen

• You spalpeen," cried Rooney, with a yell of intense indignation and pain He was about to follow this up with a blow from his powerful fist that would have sent the pirate at least a fathom of the way down to the bottom, but the sword again leaped upwards, causing him to start back as it flashed close past his cheek, and went right over the boat into the sea. —  Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters
• I should not wonder if the spalpeen has been stealin' gould or di'monds and wants to escape. —  Martin Rattler
• Me own mother died whin I wos a bit spalpeen, an' I lived wi' me grandmother, bliss her heart, ever since,--at laste till I took to wanderin', which was tin years past So long! —  The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
• "I wouldn't have been after getting it at all, at all, for the spalpeen of a postboy wanted tinpence before he would give it me, but sorra a copper had I in my pocket, and I should have had to come away without it, if Mr McCarthy, the bailiff, hadn't been riding by, and paid the money for me I took the letter; and telling Larry, after he had turned the pony into the yard, to bring up the warm water and the cup of hot coffee, I hurried, with the official-looking document in my hand, up to my uncle's room. —  Paddy Finn
• He had appeared perfectly sober when he brought me my horse to mount; besides which, I had never known Larry drunk in his life,--which was saying a great deal in his favour, considering the example he had had set him by high and low around We'll ride on slowly, and if he doesn't catch us up we'll turn back to look for the spalpeen, though the delay will be provoking," observed the major Still Larry did not heave in sight The country we were now traversing was as wild as any in Ireland. —  Paddy Finn

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