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Scots-Irish, a. a. = Scotch-Irish a. a. Also as n. b. = Scotch-Irish a. b.
1972Listener 21 Dec. 854/2 The hostility of the Catholic Irish and the Protestant Scots-Irish. Ibid. 854/3 The Protestant Scots-Irish community. 1973Guardian 27 June 13/3 The USA has taken to calling itself ‘Scots-Irish’ rather than ‘British’. 1973‘D. Shannon’ No Holiday for Crime (1974) iv. 62 Once in a while my Scots-Irish wife uses a little ESP. 1980― Felony File i. 35 The feudal household his Scots-Irish girl had wished on him. |