Definition of "girleen" [girleen]

• A little girl. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And there she was right enough, that lovely sight enough, the girleen bawn asthore, as for days galore, of planxty Gregory."
• "Long, long ago, girleen, a harper's gallantry to a pretty maid angered her mother and she asked him to help her twist a straw rope."
• ""Happiness with the least unhappiness to others, girleen," he reminded with his cheek against her hair."