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spalpeen
cheeky or cleverly naughty but loved child. "Ah, me young spalpeen, you can do better than that!" This was my father admonishing me mildly fifty plus years ago. I believe that spalpeen comes from Ireland and means an adolescent boy. I was a little girl in Launceston. My father was about fourth generation but partly of Irish extraction.