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Eileen

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //aɪˈliːn//

A female given name from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Irish.

    Come on Eileen / Oh, I swear (What he means) / At this moment / You mean everything

Etymology

From Anglicized forms of Irish Eibhlín, Eilín or Aibhilín in Middle English and Modern English, all cognates of Evelyn from Old French Aveline. Sometimes also used for the Irish name Éibhleann, possibly from Old Irish oíph (“radiance, beauty”).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).