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Meanings of gombeen in English

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Usage of gombeen in English
1
One day he and his father shopped at the gombeen store together.
What's the Matter with Ireland?
2
There was doubt on the faces of those tied to the gombeen man.
What's the Matter with Ireland?
3
The farmers were at the mercy of the gombeen traders and the agricultural middlemen.
The National Being: Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity
4
A church-ridden culture of philistine authoritarianism and gombeen statism had crushed almost all enterprise.
The Irish Times
5
You need to be in with the big gombeen families.
The Irish Times
6
Ireland offers opposition in the person of the 'gombeen man.'
What's the Matter with Ireland?
7
The gombeen man refuses accounts to everyone but the priest, magistrate, doctor and teacher.
What's the Matter with Ireland?
8
Sly gombeen smelted one of his own cheap envelopes burning.
The ginger man
9
Why, the village gombeen man has done more than that!
Imaginations and Reveries
10
People of a slightly older vintage will smile as they remember that gombeen shouting: Kate!
The Irish Times
11
They vary in wealth and position from the humblest 'gombeen man' to the millionaire banker.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
12
But the gombeen man presented him with a bill for twenty-one shillings and three pence.
What's the Matter with Ireland?
13
This in-between makes ya look like a bleedin' gombeen.
The mighty quinns: liam
14
His father had confided to him that they were in great debt to the gombeen man.
What's the Matter with Ireland?
15
The reign of the gombeen man is over.
The National Being: Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity
16
Dungloe men wanted to fish, but the gombeen man would never lend money to promote industry.
What's the Matter with Ireland?
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