单词 | irish-american |
释义 | Irish-Americann.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). < n.adj.1786 |
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