Hibernicism
noun
an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.
Hibernianism
-
a variation of
Hibernicism.
Example Sentences
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This third aristocracy is incontestably the first, if you will excuse the Hibernianism.
From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn
We have nothing in French wit that can properly be compared to Hibernianism, except perhaps the gasconnade at times, but in the gasconnade there is no humor, the essence of it is exaggeration.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell
Dissect a Hibernianism, and you will generally find two ideas, perfectly sensible, but not agreeing together.
From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell
There is an unqualified Hibernianism in the following: "Here lies the remains of Thomas Melstrom who died in Philadelphia March 17th Had he lived he would have been buried here."
From English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. by Anonymous
It is no idle Hibernianism to say that towards the end of the eighteenth century the most important event in English history happened in France.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
