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English
Noun
sleeveen (plural sleeveens)
- Alternative spelling of sleiveen
Yola
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish slíbhín.
Pronunciation
Adjective
sleeveen
- deceitful
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68