laupeen

Yola

Alternative forms

• lappeen

Etymology

laupe (“to leap”) +‎ -een (“diminutive suffix, borrowed from Irish -ín”), literally little leaper. Compare also harpleat (“sniper”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔˈpiːn/, /laˈpiːn/

Noun

laupeen

1. The green plover, leaping or running bird.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 52