Boreen (noun)
bor-een
A country lane or narrow road.
C19: from Irish Gaelic bóithrín , diminutive of bóthar road
Example sentences
“The house was at the end of a boreen, barely wide enough for a car”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
