Irish

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English Īr(as) + -isc (“‘-ish’”), ultimately from Old Irish Eriu.

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[edit] Proper noun

Singular
Irish

Plural
-

Irish

  1. The Goidelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
    Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland

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the language

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[edit] Noun

Singular
Irish

Plural
uncountable

Irish (uncountable)

  1. (collectively as a plural) The Irish people.
  2. (obsolete) A board game of the tables family.
  3. (US, dialectal) Temper; anger, passion.
    Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.
    • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 65:
      But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
  4. whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
    Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.

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the people
board game
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most translations in ‘people collectively’ only mention one person, which would be a translation of Irishman or Irishwoman, not of "the Irish"

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Irish (not comparable)

Positive
Irish

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)
  1. Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
    Sheep are typical in the Irish landscape.
  2. Pertaining to the Irish language.
  3. (informal, derogatory, dated) Nonsensical, illogical.

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pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people
pertaining to the language
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