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crubeen
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Definition:an Irish dish, boiled pigs' feet; trotters
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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.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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Pigs' croobeens boiled are a grand and favourite viand among us—all through Ireland. Irish crúb [croob], a foot, with the diminutive.
P.W. Joyce. English As We Speak It in Ireland (1910)
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