Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Ireland A type of Irish sausage made from pigs' blood, suet, and salt; an Irish version of black pudding.
Etymologies
- From the Irish word drisín / drúishin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Cathy Barry sells drisheen, pints of Murphy and crubeens.”
“Two girls are asking the assistant how to cook drisheen, the Irish black pudding which can only be described as a hard-core delicacy.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The lampredotto was dominated, flavour-wise, by the spicy sauce lathered on top. boiled in milk and served with onions (a combination my colleague appealingly describes as tasting "like a sweaty hot water bottle"), a treatment that's also used in Ireland where it's commonly served with drisheen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drisheen’.
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She She She
Words containing "she" but excluding words beginning with "she"
usher, ashen, eggshell, freshen, bolshevik, woodshed, abashed, whirling dervishes, usherettes, diminishes, quashed, unsheathed and 51 more...
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Joycean Vocab
You ain't read no English til you read Joyce.
rasher, cygnet, usquebaugh, ephebe, entelechy, kish, caul, vicereine, atelier, daguerreotype, communard, connubial and 99 more...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Words gathered while reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
refectory, soutane, ha-ha, jewelly, girt, centenary, collywobbles, coadjutor, catafalque, beeftea, pierhead, bedad and 235 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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That's Just Offal
Edible organ meats and leftover parts.
blood sausage, blood pudding, black pudding, scrapple, brawn, headcheese, drob, giblets, chitlins, chitlings, chitterlings, haggis and 55 more...
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Caxton's List
General Flotsam
drisheen, diamine, ellingtonian, hoodoo, a little happy, hobbledehoy, cambric, kenspeckle, feral, btwers, slipstream, fletching and 5 more...
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sionnach Type of sausage made from pigs' blood and tansey, recommended for invalids. Feb 23, 2007