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Scotch-Irish
[ skoch-ahy-rish ]
noun
- (used with a plural verb) the descendants of the Lowland Scots who were settled in Ulster in the 17th century.
adjective
- of or relating to the Scotch-Irish.
- of mixed Scottish and Irish descent.
Confusables Note
Word History and Origins
Origin of Scotch-Irish1
Example Sentences
It starts with both men’s early lives, the forces that shaped them and the mindbogglingly serendipitous paths that brought the California-born Mexican American Marin together with the Edmonton-born Chong, the son of Chinese and Scotch-Irish parents, in a Vancouver nightclub called Shanghai Junk in 1968.
However, it was lower for respondents with ancestry in several Caribbean nations as well as those with Azerbaijani, British, Celtic, French Canadian, Guyanese, Pennsylvania German, Romani and Scotch-Irish backgrounds.
Little information was available about her life, but Mr. Smith said she was White, with Scotch-Irish and Cherokee ancestry.
Mr. McCullough was himself a natural on television, a self-possessed, blue-eyed, hale fellow of Scotch-Irish descent with a voice and delivery — authoritative if a bit nasal — that kept him in demand for off-camera work as well.
Drawing on Scotch-Irish folk tradition — selkies, merpeople — the musical tells the story of an island split in two.
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