sleiveen or
sleeveen (SLEE-veen) - n., a dishonest person, a trickster.
Mostly Irish usage, and not surprisingly comes from Irish/Gaelic: slíghbhín or, to use modern spelling, slíbhín. I can't help wonder whether the producers of
Doctor Who knew the word when the created the
slitheen.
---L.
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prettygoodword) wrote2010-04-02 07:25 am
