Definition of Irish terrier

1. Noun. Medium-sized breed with a wiry brown coat; developed in Ireland.

Generic synonyms: Terrier

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irish Terrier

Irish jokes
Irish monetary unit
Irish moss
Irish moss gelatin
Irish pennant
Irish pennants
Irish people
Irish person
Irish potato
Irish pound
Irish punt
Irish setter
Irish soda bread
Irish stew
Irish strawberry
Irish terrier
Irish twin
Irish twins
Irish water spaniel
Irish waterfall
Irish whiskey
Irish whisky
Irish wolfhound
Irishism
Irishisms
Irishly
Irishman
Irishmen
Irishness
Irishry

Literary usage of Irish terrier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The irish terrier—It is just twenty years since the irish terrier first ... acting on the suggestion of the irish terrier Club, that no "cropped Irish ..."

2. Scottish and Irish terriers by Williams Haynes (1912)
"CHAPTER III THE irish terrier IT is wonderfully easy to write the genesis of the irish terrier's history, because, as the old colored mammy used to say of ..."

3. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1878)
"... The irish terrier. CHAPTER III.—SMOOTH TERRIER* (OTHER THAN TOYS). ... Mr G. Jamison.s irish terrier Spuds. Mr H. Lacy.s Black-Tan Terrier Belcher. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The irish terrier—It is just twenty years since the irish terrier first ... acting on the suggestion of the irish terrier Club, that no "cropped Irish ..."

5. Scottish and Irish terriers by Williams Haynes (1912)
"CHAPTER III THE irish terrier IT is wonderfully easy to write the genesis of the irish terrier's history, because, as the old colored mammy used to say of ..."

6. A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing by Dixon Kemp (1878)
"... The irish terrier. CHAPTER III.—SMOOTH TERRIER* (OTHER THAN TOYS). ... Mr G. Jamison.s irish terrier Spuds. Mr H. Lacy.s Black-Tan Terrier Belcher. ..."

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