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shamrocky en · ADJ

Etymology

From shamrock + -y.

Meanings

1. Related to, resembling, or covered in shamrocks; by extension, stereotypically associated with Ireland.
   • Everything was green and shamrocky, like Saint Patrick's day in a Polish saloon—the spirit was there but the main business was something else and in a different nationality. 1992, Bill Granger, Drover, page 55:
   • Lord Zetland had hardly a single tie to Ireland, save a few relations residing there ; nor does he own an acre of its shamrocky soil. 1913, Edward Legge, More About King Edward, page 71:
   • When I was in eighth grade, Ireland was to me a green, shamrocky, distant land that kept the United States supplied with priests and nuns. 1998, Mariá del Carmen Boza, Scattering the Ashes, page 149:

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