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Gairish :: Gairish (n.) Alt. of Gairish/nes.

Anglo- :: Anglo- () A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and, or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty, Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish..

Irishism :: Irishism (n.) A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.

Acre :: Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English..

Paddy :: Paddy (n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..

Rapparee :: Rapparee (n.) A wild Irish plunderer, esp. one of the 17th century; -- so called from his carrying a half-pike, called a rapary..

Poteen :: Poteen (n.) Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry..

Fading :: Fading (n.) An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song..

Hibernianism :: Hibernianism (n.) An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.

Irishman :: Irishman (n.) A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian.

Hibernian :: Hibernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Hibernia, now Ireland; Irish..

Planxty :: Planxty (n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character..

Milesian :: Milesian (a.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish..

Fenian :: Fenian (n.) A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland..

Brehon :: Brehon (n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.

Bogtrotter :: Bogtrotter (n.) One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) The language of the Irish; the Hiberno-Celtic.

Shamrock :: Shamrock (n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.

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