Irish moss
carrageen
carageen
carragheen
Chondrus crispus | dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America |
button quail
button-quail
bustard quail
hemipode | small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that lacks a hind toe, classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains |
striped button quail
Turnix sylvatica | a variety of button quail having stripes |
| Irish wolfhound | large breed of hound with a rough thick coat |
| Irish terrier | medium-sized breed with a wiry brown coat, developed in Ireland |
Irish setter
red setter | an Irish breed with a chestnut-brown or mahoganyed coat |
| Irish water spaniel | breed of large spaniels developed in Ireland having a heavy coat of liverolored curls and a topknot of long curls and a nearly hairless tail |
accordion
piano accordion
squeeze box | a portable box-shaped freeeed instrument, the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player |
| button | a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes |
| button | any artifact that resembles a button |
buttonhole
button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
| coat button | a button on a coat |
folding door
accordion door | an interior door that opens by folding back in sections (rather than by swinging on hinges) |
| horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
| mouse button | a push button on the mouse |
| panic button | a button to push in order to summon help in case of an emergency, the circuit is operated by a panic button, when he saw that I was angry he hit the panic button |
push button
push
button | an electrical switch operated by pressing, the elevator was operated by push buttons, the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk |
| push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
| release button | a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism |
| reset button | a push button that you press to activate the reset mechanism |
| shirt button | a button on a shirt |
clitoris
clit
button | a female sexual organ homologous to the penis |
navel
umbilicus
bellybutton
belly button
omphalos
omphalus | a scar where the umbilical cord was attached, you were not supposed to show your navel on television, they argued whether or not Adam had a navel, she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton |
gut issue
hot-button issue | an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions |
bullshit
bull
Irish bull
horseshit
shit
crap
dogshit | obscene words for unacceptable behavior, I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk, what he said was mostly bull |
| diatonic scale | a scale with eight notes in an octave, all but two are separated by whole tones |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
minor scale
minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
Irish
Irish Gaelic | the Celtic language of Ireland |
| Old Irish | Irish Gaelic up to about |
| Middle Irish | Irish Gaelic from to |
| button | a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment, they passed out campaign buttons for their candidate |
the Irish Famine
the Great Hunger
the Great Starvation
the Great Calamity | a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight, between and a million people starved to death and . million emigrated (most to America) |
mulligan stew
mulligan
Irish burgoo | Irish version of burgoo |
| Irish stew | meat (especially mutton) stewed with potatoes and onions |
| Irish soda bread | round loaf made with soda and buttermilk, often containing caraway seeds and raisins |
potato
white potato
Irish potato
murphy
spud
tater | an edible tuber native to South America, a staple food of Ireland |
Irish
Irish whiskey
Irish whisky | whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley |
| Irish coffee | sweetened coffee with Irish whiskey and whipped cream |
Continuity Irish Republican Army
CIRA
Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional IRA
Provos | a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland |
Real IRA
Real Irish Republican Army
RIRA
Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Ireland Republic of Ireland
Irish Republic
Eire | a republic consisting of of counties comprising the island of Ireland, achieved independence from the United Kingdom in |
Dublin
Irish capital
capital of Ireland | capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic |
| Irish Sea | an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland |
Irish person
Irelander | a native or inhabitant of Ireland |
Irish
Irish people | people of Ireland or of Irish extraction |
| button | any of various plant parts that resemble buttons |
button pink
Dianthus latifolius | much-branched pink with flowers in clusters, closely related to sweet William |