Irish Office
now historical
noun
A department of the British Government concerned with Irish affairs; the building in London (later also in Dublin) housing this; the civil servants working in this department, considered collectively.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in The Gentleman's Magazine.
- hook and eye
- hook-and-ladder truck
- hookbait
- hooked
- hooker
- Hooker, John Lee
- Hooke, Robert
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton
- Hooke's law
- hookey
- hookless
- hooklet
- hook-like
- hook, line, and sinker
- hook nose
- hook-nosed
- Hook of Holland
- hook-shaped
- hook shot
- hook someone/thing up
- hooktip
- hook up
- hookworm
- hooky
- hooley