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crubeen n also crube O Sup2 ~ (1847-); DINNEEN
crúibín. Pig's trotter; esp the hock prepared for food by pickling.
[1894 BURKE] 76 He eat everything was in the house, pig's head and
boiled crubeens. [1904] [1960] BURKE (ed White) 35 "Playing for the Boneen": But Fogarty
fisted his pig by the tail, / And struck right and left, where a head could be seen, /
And Murphy, poor feller, was knocked into the cellar, / From a lick of the crube of the
little Boneen. 1937 DEVINE 17 ~ Pig's feet salted and prepared for cooking. P 108-70
Crubeens are pig's feet or hocks, pickled like salt pork. 1979 Evening Telegram 12
Nov, p. 6 Every pupil was expected to be sent down to the cove for ... a watered crubeen,
a head of cabbage, a bucket of coal, or a turn of water from Gaden's stream.
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