"boreen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Irish bóithrín, diminutive of bóthar (“road”), see Irish -ín (diminutive suffix).",
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    {
      "form": "boreens",
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          "ref": "c. 1900, “Star of the County Down (traditional folk song)”:",
          "text": "Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \\ And she smiled as she passed me by.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 63:",
          "text": "A boy in a disguise nobody believed in, an actor playing a part he didn't understand, he would trudge every rocky field and quaking bog, every pot-holed road and tortuous boreen, each of the thirteen villages on his father's estate, speaking the Irish he had learned from his father's servants.",
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        "A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle."
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        "(Ireland) A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland, often characterised by a ridge of grass growing in the middle."
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        {
          "word": "bohereen"
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          "word": "bohireen"
        }
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    {
      "rhymes": "-iːn"
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  "word": "boreen"
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    {
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    {
      "word": "bohereen"
    },
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  "word": "boreen"
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