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单词 northern irishman
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Northern Irishmann.

Brit. /ˌnɔːðn ˈʌɪrᵻʃmən/, U.S. /ˌnɔrðərn ˈaɪrɪʃmən/
Inflections: Plural Northern Irishmen.
Forms: Also with lower-case initial in the first element.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Northern Irish adj., man n.1
Etymology: < Northern Irish adj. + man n.1, after Irishman n.
A man from the north of Ireland (now usually from Northern Ireland). Cf. Ulsterman n. at Ulster n. 4b.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland > part of Ireland
Ultagh1649
Corkonian?1770
southern1773
Ultonian1781
Northern Irishman1818
yellowbelly1826
Ulsterman1845
mountainy man1851
Ulsterite1920
Dub1973
1818 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 236/1 There is..a particular intonation peculiar to a Northern Irishman, which distinguishes him in every part of the habitable globe.
1868 Illustr. Times 13 June 374/1 Sir Thomas..is an Irishman; not, though, one of the old Celtic race, but a northern Irishman, probably of Scotch origin.
1899 Pall Mall Mag. Aug. 570 He is a fine type of a Northern Irishman, who is so devoted to his country that he would fight all the Nationalists in it single-handed.., rather than be ruled from Dublin.
1940 N.Y. Times 29 Mar. 4/7 Ulster is specifically excluded from the British Conscription Act. Northern Irishmen have their own regiments.
1989 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 22 Jan. a21 The case of three Northern Irishmen and an Englishwoman who were arrested after two IRA bombings killed seven people in the London area in 1974.
2006 S. R. Kelleher Frommer's Ireland from $90 Day (ed. 21) 505/1 This isn't to say that every Northern Irishman has encountered violence, but it certainly has been a pervasively stressful environment.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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