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Yes-- een is an irish diminutive (as in smithereens, and any number of girls names, kathleen, eileen, maureen, etc) and a gob is a monster in the shape of mouth-- who devorers.-- The bogey man would come into your room at night and drag you off to the bog, and a gobeen would eat you alive--(the brothers grim had nothing on the irish-- their fairy tame are tame compared to what await a irish child who was bad! No friendly woodsman to kill of the mean wolf-- the bogeyman and gobeen always survived to come again...)
So its pretty easy to see how it got applied to money lenders and landlord/rent collectors... they kept coming back too--
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Gobeen Father Steve 12/31/00 07:40 AM Re: Gobeen Capital Kiwi 12/31/00 08:27 AM Gombeen TEd Remington 01/01/01 11:31 AM Re: Gombeen of troy 01/02/01 03:06 PM Re: Gombeen Max Quordlepleen 01/02/01 07:42 PM Grimm philologists xara 01/02/01 08:50 PM Re: Grimm philologists belMarduk 01/03/01 02:57 AM Re: Gombeen NicholasW 01/03/01 08:30 AM Re: Gobeen/gombeen wow 12/31/00 02:34 PM
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