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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..

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

Goemin :: Goemin (n.) A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

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

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants..

Irishry :: Irishry (n.) The Celtic people of Ireland.

Bandle :: Bandle (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.

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

Biddy :: Biddy (n.) An Irish serving woman or girl.

Hiberno-celtic :: Hiberno-Celtic (n.) The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

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

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

Absentee :: Absentee (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee..

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.

Spalpeen :: Spalpeen (n.) A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule.

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

Brogue :: Brogue (v. t.) A dialectic pronunciation; esp. the Irish manner of pronouncing English.

O :: O' () A prefix to Irish family names, which signifies grandson or descendant of, and is a character of dignity; as, O'Neil, O'Carrol..

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