thraneen

noun

1. An insignificant amount; a trifle.

2. A stem of dried grass.

   [I]f she wishes to see them at their sport, she has only to make a ring out of a thraneen, and look at them through it, and she will see them in all their bravery with their fox-glove caps and green jerkins, capering to the sound of a bag-pipe, with a lurikeen playing it, and he sitting on a fairy mushroom; but she will never see a stim with that eye again.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Irish tráithnín (“a stem of dried grass”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry thraneen (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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