Search Details

Word: shpalpeen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: So Rich the Rose | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Story. It seems there were two Irish people, Larry O'Shea and his sister. The sister was called Nora. She had mothered the shpalpeen from breechcloth to long pants, and when he got off on a fine big ranch in Arizona she kept writing him to say his prayers and be a good, happy boy. He wrote back that he was all that, and what a grand gentleman was the Mr. Morgan he worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspired Wright | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...lazy shpalpeen was a dawnin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

| 1 |