"dullaghan" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "dullaghans",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "dullahan"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870, Patrick Weston Joyce, The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, page 186",
          "text": "Ballindollaghan in the parish of Baslick, Roscommon, must be a horrible place to live in, if the dullaghan that gave it the name ever shows himself now to the inhabitants. Every one knows that a ghost without a head is [horrible].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, William Gregory Wood-Martin, History of Sligo, County and Town, page 382",
          "text": "His head is doubtless, as is usual with dullaghans, under his arm, but where are the heads of the four horses?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Doug Wilson, The Time Road: Part 2: the Changeling Warriors, Xlibris Corporation",
          "text": "They heard the sound of hooves – big beasts, galloping fast. As the three highwaymen slowly struggled to sit up, one turned and screamed. Coming towards them out of the night were two huge, fierce, fire-breathing black dullaghans, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Irish Fairy Book, Library of Alexandria",
          "text": "The Pooka, who appeared in the shape of a horse, and whom Shakespeare has adapted as “Puck,” was a goblin who combined “horseplay” with viciousness. The dullaghan was a churchyard demon whose head was of a movable kind, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of dullahan"
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  "word": "dullaghan"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "dullaghans",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870, Patrick Weston Joyce, The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, page 186",
          "text": "Ballindollaghan in the parish of Baslick, Roscommon, must be a horrible place to live in, if the dullaghan that gave it the name ever shows himself now to the inhabitants. Every one knows that a ghost without a head is [horrible].",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1892, William Gregory Wood-Martin, History of Sligo, County and Town, page 382",
          "text": "His head is doubtless, as is usual with dullaghans, under his arm, but where are the heads of the four horses?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Doug Wilson, The Time Road: Part 2: the Changeling Warriors, Xlibris Corporation",
          "text": "They heard the sound of hooves – big beasts, galloping fast. As the three highwaymen slowly struggled to sit up, one turned and screamed. Coming towards them out of the night were two huge, fierce, fire-breathing black dullaghans, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Irish Fairy Book, Library of Alexandria",
          "text": "The Pooka, who appeared in the shape of a horse, and whom Shakespeare has adapted as “Puck,” was a goblin who combined “horseplay” with viciousness. The dullaghan was a churchyard demon whose head was of a movable kind, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Alternative form of dullahan"
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