smoked irishman
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The smoked Irishmen — the colored (no one says black; few even say Negro) — represent change and instability, kids who cause trouble in school, who get treatment that your kids never got, that you never got."
- ""We get fairly good salaries, and this is a good neighborhood, one of the few good ones left. We have no smoked Irishmen around.""
- "When asked about his Irish name, and how he came by that, McCracken replied "I's smoked Irish, Judge, just another smoked Irishman.""
Etymology
From the joint low status of blacks and the Irish in Britain and the United States during the 19th century.