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单词 irish-american
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Irish-Americann.adj.

Brit. /ˌʌɪrɪʃəˈmɛrᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈˌaɪrɪʃəˈmɛrək(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Irish adj., American n., American adj.
Etymology: As noun < Irish adj. + American n. As adjective < Irish adj. + American n. Compare earlier Anglo-American n., Anglo-American adj.
A. n.
An American of Irish origin or descent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > by country of origin
American1648
African1700
High Dutch1773
Low Dutch1773
German-American1775
African American1782
Anglo-American1785
Irish-American1786
Africo-American1788
American African1826
Pennsylvania German1827
Pennsylvania Dutch1831
Afro-American1833
far-downer1834
Mexicano1847
knickerbocker1848
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1873
Polish-American1876
Polacker1883
roundhead1895
hunk1896
Polack1898
Senegambian1900
bohunk1903
honky1904
hunyak1911
Turk1914
boho1920
Anglo1923
Euro-American1925
turkey1932
narrowback1933
nisei1934
roundheader1934
pachuco1943
pocho1944
Latino1946
Chicano1947
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1952
Amerasian1957
Chicana1966
Afrikan1972
Hispanic1972
1786 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 7 Nov. (1997) I. 643 Gave in charity to Danl. Lemasney an Irish American 24f.
1836 T. Power Impressions of Amer. I. 185 The accent of the Irish American..differs [little] from that of the settler of a year.
1855 Frederick Douglass' Paper 14 Dec. Now, a considerable number of Irish-Americans are prepared to act.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson Amateur Emigrant (1895) 57 We had a fellow on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Callot; one-eyed, with great, splay crow's-feet round the sockets.
1903 W. B. Yeats Let. 9 Nov. (1994) III. 463 It has a chapter about Irish Americans seen too much from the point of view of the well to-do anglicized American.
1978 Boston Globe 16 Feb. 18 As an Irish-American, I deplore the current violence in Ulster.
2000 M. Fletcher Silver Linings (2001) vi. 130 The great myth is that today's Irish-Americans are all descendants of those impoverished Catholics who fled to America in nineteenth-century ‘coffin boats’.
B. adj.
Designating an American of Irish origin or descent; of or relating to such a person, or to the Irish community in the United States.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > by country of origin
African1722
American1761
Low Dutch1774
Pennsylvania Dutch1792
Anglo-American1797
Irish-American1820
Africo-American1825
American African1826
Afro-American1831
Polish-American1850
Chinese-American1854
Italian–American1854
Russo-American1878
African American1885
Senegambian1911
Afrikan1929
Mexican-American1948
Asian American1950
Amerasian1965
Chicano1966
Anglo1968
Tejano1978
1820 Analectic Mag. Jan. 11 He was well acquainted with E. the Irish-American barrister.
1832 New-England Mag. June 490 Irish-American Literature.
1849 Boston Daily Atlas 23 Nov. We [in New York] have an Irish-American population amounting to over one hundred thousand souls.
1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 197 My Irish American-Jew boy.
1902 Irish Rosary Jan. 77/1 The Irish-American Press should urge upon the Irish in America a sense of their duty in this matter.
1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble x. 197 The famous Irish-American plastic surgeon, Eastman Sheean.
1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. i. 39/1 That's the traditional Irish-American story.
2002 BusinessWeek 3 June 58/2 After class, the six-foot-tall Irish-American redhead mixes mimosas and pours cold brewskis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1786
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