Irishly, adv.
(ˈaɪərɪʃlɪ)
[-ly2.]
In Irish fashion; with Irish leanings.
| 1571 Act 13 Eliz. in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 369 A verie fewe of them both by nation, education, and custome Irish Irishly affectioned. 1825 Lockhart in Scott's Fam. Lett. (1894) II. 306 A fine lad..very Irishly gentlemanlike. 1907 Daily Chron. 23 May 6/4 That solitary English engineer—who is, to speak Irishly, of course, a Scotchman—holds the Nile in fee. 1915 W. Owen Let. 4 Apr. (1967) 329 She is..badly off; and though spending irishly, spends every penny. 1929 E. Bowen Joining Charles 64 Grizelda and Doris were best in the Irish Jig; so saucy, quite Irishly saucy. 1959 R. Graves Coll. Poems 290 How Irishly you sacrifice Love to pity, pity to ill-humour. |