Hibernianism

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hibernian +‎ -ism.

Noun

Hibernianism (plural Hibernianisms)

  1. An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
    • 1806, The Eclectic Review:
      He has certainly a strange way of expressing himself ; but the reader may often discover amidst Hibernianisms, obscurity , and bombast , much acute remark , and judicious reflection
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