- 1愛爾蘭口語裡的「女孩、少女」（不是對任何女生的普通叫法；作人名台灣多寫成科琳，愛爾蘭當地反而不當人名用）
In Ireland, a colleen is a girl or a young woman. It is a warm, slightly old-fashioned word — the kind you meet in songs, stories, and tourist talk more than in a Dublin office on a Monday. English borrowed it from Irish cailín, which simply means “girl”. Though actually, most people outside Ireland now meet Colleen as a woman’s first name, and Hollywood helped that along in the 1920s (there is also the spelling Coleen). In Ireland itself it is not really used as a given name. If you call someone a colleen today, you are usually reaching for an Irish flavour, not making a careful, everyday description of any young woman.
組成Borrowed from Irish cailín, “girl”. As an English first name, Colleen was also pushed by Hollywood in the 1920s, alongside the spelling Coleen; it is not used as a given name in Ireland.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Colleenname/kəˈliːn/
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A female given name from English or Irish.
- Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.
colleennoun
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A girl.
- 2
A young single woman.
- Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.
- So here was Timothy McShanus deserting the baked meats, to say nothing of his convenient corner in the buffet, to go out and stare at a red shepherdess with picture books and maizypop to sell. And what kind of a colleen was it that he saw? […] Young as she was—and I supposed her to be about eighteen—her figure would have given her five years more according to our northern ideas; […]
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。