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Irishism|ˈaɪərɪʃɪz(ə)m| [f. Irish + -ism.] An Irish peculiarity, esp. of expression; a Hibernicism; an Irish bull.
1734W. Pulteney in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) II. 101 So I, supported by so great an authority, may venture on an Irishism, too. 1737Ozell Rabelais III. 231 This is not a Scotch-ism but an Irish-ism. 1791Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) I. 325, I was just going to exhort you to pass through Brussels..a fair Irishism, since if you read this you are already at Paris. 1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 13 There are many Irishisms in his works. 1879G. Meredith Egoist II. xi. 243. |