Irish
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Irish/ˈʌɪrɪʃ/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to Ireland or the Celtic language traditionally and historically spoken there.
- 2 offensive illogical or apparently so.
– derivatives
Irishman noun (pl. Irishmen),
Irishness noun,
Irishwoman noun (pl. Irishwomen).
Irishman noun (pl. Irishmen),
Irishness noun,
Irishwoman noun (pl. Irishwomen).
'Irish' also found in these Oxford entries:
acushla
- after
- alannah
- ancestry
- Anglo-Celt
- Anglo-Irish
- baldy
- banshee
- bawn
- bedad
- begorra
- begrudge
- bejabers
- bejesus
- blarney
- blood
- blow-in
- bodach
- bodhrán
- bogtrotter
- bollix
- boreen
- bowsie
- boxty
- boycott
- boyo
- brack
- brogue
- broth
- buckeen
- cantankerous
- caubeen
- ceilidh
- Celtic
- Celtic fringe
- cess
- chipper
- colcannon
- colleen
- Colles' fracture
- corner boy
- cottier
- counsellor
- coupon
- crack
- crannog
- culchie
- currach
- deoch an doris
- dexter
