falsakeen

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish *fallásaichín, unattested diminutive of fallásach (“fallacious”).

Noun

falsakeen

  1. An unprincipled character, a false person.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 39
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