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Irishes

Irishes is the plural of Irish.

Meaning of Irish

Noun

Irish (countable and uncountable, plural Irish or Irishes)

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) A board game of the tables family.
  2. (US, uncountable) Temper; anger, passion.
    • But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, Nebraska, published 1987, page 65
  3. Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
    • Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […]

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Phrases with Irishes

Questions about Irishes

What is Irishes the plural of?
Irishes is the plural of Irish.

Words near Irishes in the dictionary

  1. Irishcisms
  2. IrishE
  3. Irished up
  4. Irisher
  5. Irishers
  6. Irishes
  7. Irishes up
  8. Irishian
  9. Irishians
  10. Irishing up
  11. Irishism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Irishes (page history and authors); Irish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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