Irishman
- noun
- /ˈaɪrɪʃmən/
- A tall and heavy Irishman, built like a tank, with beautiful baby-blue eyes.
- becoming an Irishman
He's a huge Scots Irishman with huge hands, huge jawline.
- He's a huge Scots Irishman with huge hands, huge jawline.
- And you got like you got initially you have Al who's a Irishman, right, legend.
- But not a lot of black Irishmen.
- Being half an Irishman, I'm entitled to say, as the apocryphal Irishman, ask the road and distance to Dublin.
- And obviously, he's been let go because you don't, you know, when you're looking to hire an Irishman, you don't want to hire a Scotsman.
- My father came from the same Irish, you know, when the Irish ran New York, the, the cops and the Irishmen and all that stuff.
- Leary's name comes from an Irishman who's who was the friend of his father Lieber and Constantine.
- But I was, it was great to and I love Ireland and I play Irishman quite a lot and I feel so at home in Ireland.
- So Irishmen, there's a great movie there.
- So it's like an Irishman with an American got to think about that.
- If you put an Irishman in Australia, they're in deep trouble, and the solution is a hat and sunscreen.
Examples
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Pat is an Irishman, 42 years of age, and is said to be very rich.
Fiction book (1991) -
John Barry was an Irishman, but his heart crossed the Atlantic with him.
Academic text (1994) -
I sometimes think that only an Irishman can really understand the red man.
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In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God.
Fiction book (1995) -
There's only one Irishman here.
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O'Brien is an Irishman from County Limerick.
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Bartley: Well, there comes a time for every Irishman to take a stand against his oppressors.
Fiction book (1997) -
So I would wreck strongly recommend the amazing video series the history of film narrated by this Irishman whose name escapes me right now.
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He's an Irishman who doesn't drink, doesn't smoke and doesn't chase dames.
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O'Brien is an Irishman from County Limerick.
Synonyms
A person from Ireland
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Irishman is simply Irish + man, and Irish comes from the old name for the country, Éire. So an Irishman is 'a man who is from Ireland'.