单词 | irisher |
释义 | Irishern. colloquial. A native or inhabitant of Ireland; (chiefly U.S.) a person of Irish descent.With quot. 1956 cf. black Irish adj. and n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland IrishmanOE Ireis1297 hooded mana1464 Mac1518 Irish1553 Teague?1661 bog-trotter1682 Milesian1682 dear joy1688 Teaguelander1689 paddy1714 bog-lander1736 bog-stalkera1758 brogueneer1758 paddywhack1773 Pat1796 West Briton1805 Irisher1807 Patlander1820 Greek1823 Mick1850 redneck1852 Grecian1853 mickeyc1854 Mike1859 harp1904 1807 C. Schultz Let. 15 July in Trav. (1810) I. 8 The inhabitants are mostly of German descent, and still, in a great measure, retain their national prejudices, and consider all who do not speak their own language either as Yankees or Irishers. 1832 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times III. 35 What would the poor Irishers have done in owld times? 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. iii. 35 This indignation was tempered..by contempt for ‘them Irishers’. 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. 283 A big, red-headed Irisher. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xi. 90 I'm a Wop Irisher from Boston. 1973 M. Mackintosh King & Two Queens xii. 180 I'm only a no-account Irisher, but I like to pay my debts. 2000 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 21 July 4 d Padraig Harrington, the Irisher, had hit 6 under. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807 |
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