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- noun Plural form of
crubeen .
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Examples
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Rockett's speciality is traditional dishes, and particularly crubeens, pigs' trotters boiled into a gloriously rich and gelatinous finger-food.
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One of these, a starter listed as snails and crubeens, which should be little fritters of gooey braised pig's trotter, was a salty, sticky, unpleasant mess of chewy snails and flavourless deep-fried cubes.
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He had a quiet word with Mrs. Doyle inquiring, discreetly as he might, of the arrangements, and she said they had the insure paid, thank God, himself was always up to his time with that, and it was good of Mr. Mack to ask, thank you for that, he was very good altogether and the crubeens too.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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He had a quiet word with Mrs. Doyle inquiring, discreetly as he might, of the arrangements, and she said they had the insure paid, thank God, himself was always up to his time with that, and it was good of Mr. Mack to ask, thank you for that, he was very good altogether and the crubeens too.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Cathy Barry sells drisheen, pints of Murphy and crubeens.
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Reckitt's blue, and from pigs 'crubeens to the best Limerick flitches.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Before two o'clock the magnates of the fair had left it, taking with them the cream of its contents, and in humbler people such a hunger began to assert itself as came near bringing even crubeens and Peggy's leg within the sphere of practical politics.
All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903
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In the room the girls were nibbling the crubeens he’d brought.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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In the room the girls were nibbling the crubeens he’d brought.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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