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weep Irish

weep Irish verb: to cry insincerely or in an exaggerated manner.

Verb

weep Irish (third-person singular simple present weeps Irish, present participle weeping Irish, simple past and past participle wept Irish)

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To cry insincerely or in an exaggerated manner.
    • I have here omitted the pathetic description of Billy Flannagan, touching the doleful parting of Cathleen with her people, "who wept Irish," hullaghlued, ahahoned, with all the moving circumstances of her farewell, and the seeing her home.1843, Nathanael Burton, History of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, near Dublin
    • All this while, above in chambers looking out, we saw the long-bearded ministers of Geneva who laughed at us; but if we might have had our wills we would have made them to have wept Irish.1905, Bede Camm, Lives of the English Martyrs (Vol. 2)

Forms of weep Irish

third-person singular presentweeps Irish
present participleweeping Irish
past participlewept Irish
pastwept Irish

Origin of weep Irish

From the extravagant displays of emotion associated with professional mourners at traditional Irish funerals.

Questions about weep Irish

What does weep Irish mean?
Weep Irish means to cry insincerely or in an exaggerated manner.
What part of speech is weep Irish?
Weep Irish is a verb.
What is the past tense of weep Irish?
The past tense of weep Irish is wept Irish.

Words near weep Irish in the dictionary

  1. weep buckets
  2. weep hole
  3. weep holes
  4. weep in one's beer
  5. weep into one's beer
  6. weep Irish
  7. weepable
  8. weepathon
  9. weepathons
  10. weepe
  11. weeped

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