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Irishism
[ ahy-ri-shiz-uhm ]
Irishism
/ ˈaɪrɪˌʃɪzəm /
noun
- an Irish custom or idiom
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Mrs. Maper corrected the Irishism by saying, "Do you mean dismiss?"
Yet it is an incident worth lingering on; the depravity, savagery and degraded Irishism being never so well admitted.
No man in the industrial machine is a free-will agent, except the large capitalist, and he isn't, if you'll pardon the Irishism.
Said hole being usually filled—to use an Irishism—with a center-table loaded to the guards with art portfolios.
We have a lot of Irishmen on board which explains this Irishism.
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