IRISHMAN

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• IRISHMAN (noun)
  The noun IRISHMAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland

  Familiarity information: IRISHMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• IRISHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is a native or inhabitant of Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Irishman" is a kind of...):

Irelander; Irish person (a native or inhabitant of Ireland)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Irishman"):

Mick; Mickey; Paddy ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent)

Holonyms ("Irishman" is a member of...):

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

 Context examples 

When you get a good Irishman you can’t better ’em, but they’re dreadful ’asty.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“O’Toole or McCarthy would suit your mug a damn sight better. Unless, very likely, there’s an Irishman in your mother’s woodpile.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Nor was her distress unnoticed by the Irishman.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I am an Irishman, sir.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have made the acquaintance of another one of the crew,—Louis he is called, a rotund and jovial-faced Nova Scotia Irishman, and a very sociable fellow, prone to talk as long as he can find a listener.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Irishman wavered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)