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sleveen

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about 1 year ago sionnach said: alternate spellings: sleeveen, slíbhín

from the Hiberno-English archive:

a sly person; a trickster; a toady; a smooth-tongued rogue < Ir. slíbhín. 'Look at that sleveen creeping around the priest -- I wonder what he's after now?', 'Keep away from that slíbhín!', 'He's a slíbhín -- watch him, I'm telling you'.

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