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irish
/ˈaɪɹɪʃ/
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What does irish mean?
noun
- Temper; anger, passion.
- Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
adjective
- Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Pertaining to the Irish language.
proper noun
- The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
- The Irish people.
- A surname originating as an ethnonym.
- A female given name of chiefly Philippine usage.
noun
- (obsolete) A board game of the tables family.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈaɪɹɪʃ/
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See this word in context.
The astonished Angel looked at him, caught the irrepressible gleam of Irish fun in his eyes, so they stood and laughed together.
The bare thought of the delight an Irish servant would have in also dragging a Protestant clergyman into the thing was sickening.
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Late in the evening I directed my steps across the bridge to the green, where I had discoursed with the Irish itinerants.
He afterwards went himself to help his brother in his Irish wars, but his brother was defeated in the end and killed.
In a similar manner, the main shipping routes on the east coast and also in the Irish Sea were under constant observation.