Associations to the word «Spalpeen»

Wiktionary

SPALPEEN, noun. (Irish) A poor migratory farm worker in Ireland, often viewed as a rascal or mischievous and cunning person.
SPALPEEN, noun. (Irish) A good-for-nothing person, often used so-named during a good humored ridicule.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope