Hibernianism

English

Alternative forms

• Hibernicism

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