Definitions

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  • noun Same as Hibernicism.

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  • noun An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.

Etymologies

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Hibernian +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • The cacao tree never appears naked, save on the rare occasions when it is stripped by the wind, and the leaves are green all the year round, save when they are red, if the reader will pardon an Hibernianism.

    Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

  • His Hibernianism fell from him like a garment, and he was over the heather and away like any true born

    The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

  • Hibernianism in the year 1565, in the County of Kildare, in the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • After this Hibernianism, Mrs. O'Flaherty set to work in earnest.

    War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

  • In his paper on “Hibernianism” he said there was a tradition in the Ancient Order that they first started in Ireland in the Penal days as a bodyguard to their poor parish priest when he said Mass in the open air.

    The Life Story of an Old Rebel Denvir, John 1910

  • If we would be quite sure of it -- to use a Hibernianism -- we should live in our house at least a year before it is built.

    The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

  • 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.

    The Victorian Age in Literature 1905

  • There was but one kind of meat served at once, and this, to use a Hibernianism, was usually pork.

    The Romance of the Civil War 1903

  • In Cork, for example, it completely controlled the city life for some years, but the rapid rise of the Republican Movement brought about the equally rapid fall of Hibernianism.

    Principles of Freedom 1899

  • Hibernianism created an unnatural atmosphere of sectarian rivalry in

    Principles of Freedom 1899

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