Definition of Hibernianism in English:
Hibernianism
(also Hibernicism)
nounhʌɪˈbəːnɪənɪz(ə)mhīˈbərnēəˌnizəm
An Irish idiom or expression.
Example sentencesExamples
- Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth.
- I hope that, after making due allowance for Hibernicisms and for imperfect acquaintance with English modes of thought and expression, he will accept my explanation as sufficient.
- The foregoing words and expressions are probably provincialisms rather than Devonianisms, good old English forms of expression; as are, indeed, many of the so-called Hibernicisms.
- When it was brought to me, my toast (to use an Hibernicism) proved to be bread-and-butter.