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gombeen
[ gom-been ]
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gombeen1
1860–65; < Irish ²µ²¹¾±³¾²úÃ²Ô interest, especially exorbitant interest, literally, bit, small piece, diminutive of gamba lump, hunk
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Sports pundit Jarlath Burns said the use of "Gombeen Irish" had no place in the GAA.
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Gombeen′man, a grasping and usurious money-lender in Ireland.
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I slackened and saw them drop into the road and there remain, mystified, no doubt, by the astonishing variety of scents, from goat to gombeen man, that presented themselves.
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We passed Stephen Casey and the gombeen man cornering the disputed calves in the sympathetic accord that such an operation demands.
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They disliked him, and he was an upstart and a gombeen man and a usurper, and such foolishness, in the mouths of every one of them.
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