Hibernicism

American  

[hahy-bur-nuh-siz-uhm] / haɪˈbɜr nəˌsɪz əm /

Also Hibernianism

noun

1. an idiom or characteristic peculiar to Irish English or to the Irish.

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Hibernicism British  

/ haɪˈbɜːnɪˌsɪzəm /

noun

1. an Irish expression, idiom, trait, custom, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Hibernicism

1750–60; < Medieval Latin Hibernic ( us ) Hibernian ( Hibern ( ia ) Hibernia + -icus -ic ) + -ism

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Hibernicism

And this fine impressibility of nature, which needs no statistics, when it is combined with genius,—if we may be pardoned an Hibernicism which almost writes itself,—may be said to create its own statistics.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 by Various

Mr. PALMER:—Does not the gentleman's amendment involve an Hibernicism?

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

Fancy, however, that, without any Hibernicism, the best road is in the water of the lake.

From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Richard Henry Bonnycastle

Not that they loved society less, but solitude more; especially, to use a Hibernicism, when that solitude was shared.

From An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by A. Ethelwyn Wetherald

The monotype machine is, to use a Hibernicism, two machines, which, though quite separate and unrelated, are yet mutually interdependent and necessary the one to the other.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock

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