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shamrocky

adj

Etymology

From shamrock + -y.

  1. derived from *semh₁r-✻
  2. derived from *semarā✻
  3. derived from semróc
  4. borrowed from seamróg
  5. suffixed as shamrocky — “shamrock + -y”

Definitions

  1. Related to, resembling, or covered in shamrocks

    Related to, resembling, or covered in shamrocks; by extension, stereotypically associated with Ireland.

    • Lord Zetland had hardly a single tie to Ireland, save a few relations residing there ; nor does he own an acre of its shamrocky soil.
    • Everything was green and shamrocky, like Saint Patrick's day in a Polish saloon—the spirit was there but the main business was something else and in a different nationality.
    • When I was in eighth grade, Ireland was to me a green, shamrocky, distant land that kept the United States supplied with priests and nuns.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA