wild Irishman
Britishnoun
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He and his bosom companion in iniquity, a wild Irishman from the Flats by the name of Patrick Regan, conspired to make the practise hour a burden to both their instructors.
From Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The Wing Commander never suspected that I was with this wild Irishman.
From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Rutherford George Montgomery
You're a very fine woman, me lady, and I'm proud as Punch of you, but you don't know how to manage a wild Irishman when he is ill.
From Light O' the Morning by L. T. Meade
Tom scampered after him, hallooing with might and main, and the wild horse and wild Irishman soon disappeared among the ravines of the prairie.
From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
I am rather anxious to see the wild Irishman they have captured lately—Lord Mallow.
From Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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