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Origin of Irish potato
First recorded in 1675–85
Words nearby Irish potato
Irish lord,
Irishman,
Irish moss,
Irish pennant,
Irish pipes,
Irish potato,
Irish Republic,
Irish Republican Army,
Irish Sea,
Irish setter,
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How to use Irish potato in a sentence
The month of May will see an Irish referendum on the legalization of same-sex marriage.
After years at the head of a parochial school classroom, he could no longer distinguish one blond Irish Catholic kid from another.
Most of the vendors were, like this woman, honorary Jews for the night, not that Jews have a monopoly on potato pancakes.
Esther Choi of Mokbar said she has made Korean potato pancakes called gam ja jun, and Charles Rodriguez of PRINT.
She came to the Latke Festival because she loved any dish so based around the potato.
The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.
Wheat gives place to Rye about the same time, and the Potato, at first comparatively rare, becomes universal.
The boy backed away from him, and stood a little distance off, holding out a nice, juicy potato this time.
His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.
The Irish Peasantry are idle, the English say truly enough; but who inquires whether there is any work within their reach?
British Dictionary definitions for Irish potato
noun
mainly US another name for the potato Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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