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- noun An
Irish food made fromboiled pigs 'feet .
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Examples
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Florence MacCabe takes a crubeen and a bottle of double X for supper every
Ulysses 2003
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And a big crubeen for thruppence to be pickin 'while you're able.
The Galway Races 1999
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Only thirty pages after pocketing the crubeen and trotter does he arrive at the brothel of Mrs. Cohen, the Circe stand-in.
'Making the Wrong Joyce': An Exchange Rose, Danis 1998
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Florence MacCabe takes a crubeen and a bottle of double X for supper every Saturday.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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In each hand he holds a parcel, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the other a cold sheep's trotter, sprinkled with wholepepper.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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BLOOM: _ (Hides the crubeen and trotter behind his back and, crestfallen, feels warm and cold feetmeat) Ja, ich weiss, papachi.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Before Broadbint knew hwere he was, the pig was up his back and over into his lap; and bedad the poor baste did credit to Corny's thrainin of it; for it put in the fourth speed wid its right crubeen as if it was enthered for the Gordn Bennett.
John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903
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He unrolls one parcel and goes to dump the crubeen softly but holds back and feels the trotter.) _ Sizeable for threepence.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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_ (With regret he lets the unrolled crubeen and trotter slide.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
brtom commented on the word crubeen
Florence MacCabe takes a crubeen and a bottle of double X for supper every Saturday.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7
January 2, 2007
brtom commented on the word crubeen
definition: pig's foot
January 2, 2007
brtom commented on the word crubeen
"In each hand he holds a parcel, one containing a lukewarm pig's crubeen, the other a cold sheep's trotter sprinkled with wholepepper"
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word crubeen
"...there were few dishes Jack Aubrey preferred to soused pig's face, while for his own part Stephen was fond of a pair of cold crubeens."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 15
March 6, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word crubeen
"You can tell me at supper. Aunt Oona's having the whole family over for Irish stew and crubeens."
Crosstalk by Connie Willis, p 27
February 14, 2017