Word Meanings - IRISHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.

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• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• PECULIAR
  1. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• HIBERNICISM; HIBERNIANISM
  An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish. Todd.
• IRISHISM
  A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.
• IRISH
  Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. Irish elk. See under Elk. -- Irish moss. Carrageen. A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. -- Irish poplin. See Poplin. -- Irish potato, the ordinary white
• IRISHMAN
  A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian. Irishman's hurricane , a dead calm. -- Irishman's reef. See Irish reef, under Irish, a.
• PECULIARITY
  1. The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity. Swift. 2. That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity. The smallest peculiarity of temper on manner. Macaulay. 3. Exclusive
• SPEAKING
  1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which
• SPEAK
  specan, sprecan; akin to OF.ries. spreka, D. spreken, OS. spreken, G. sprechen, OHG. sprehhan, and perhaps to Skr. sphurj to crackle, to 1. To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be
• SPEAKABLE
  1. Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham. 2. Able to speak. Milton.
• IRISHRY
  The Celtic people of Ireland. "The whole Irishry of rebels." Milton.
• IRISH AMERICAN
  A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FORSPEAK
  1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.
• FORESPEAKING
  A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet.
• UNSPEAK
  To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak.
• BESPEAK
  besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was
• HOME-SPEAKING
  Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. Milton.
• FORESPEAK
  See FORSPEAK
• UNSPEAKABLE
  Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage. -- Un*speak"a*bly, adv. Ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. 1 Pet. i. 8.
• GAIRISH; GAIRISHLY; GAIRISHNESS
  See GARISHNESS
• RESPEAK
  1. To speak or utter again. 2. To answer; to echo. Shak.