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Scotch-Irish

[ skoch-ahy-rish ]

noun

  1. (used with a plural verb) the descendants of the Lowland Scots who were settled in Ulster in the 17th century.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the Scotch-Irish.
  2. of mixed Scottish and Irish descent.
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Confusables Note

See Scotch.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Scotch-Irish1

First recorded in 1735–45
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Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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Little information was available about her life, but Mr. Smith said she was White, with Scotch-Irish and Cherokee ancestry.

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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.

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Drawing on Scotch-Irish folk tradition — selkies, merpeople — the musical tells the story of an island split in two.

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