wild Irishman

noun

1. another name for matagouri

Example Sentences

Although Johnny told him three times about those eight shillings, he was not sure whether the idea had penetrated the wild Irishman’s thick skull or not.

From Literature

Foppish young man with adolescent moustache, pumps, legs à la spermaceti candles, shirt front embroidered à la 2.40 race horse, cravat à la Julien, vest à la pumpkin pie, hair à la soft soap, coat-tails à la boot-jack, which when parted discovered a view of the Crystal Palace by gas-light on the rear of his pantaloons, wristbands à la stove pipe, hat à la wild Irishman, cane to correspond; total effect à la Shanghae.

From Project Gutenberg

If the feathers on top of its head look as if they had been brushed the wrong way into a pointed crest; moreover, if some chestnut colour shows in its tail when spread, and its pearly gray breast shades into yellow underneath, you are looking at the noisy "wild Irishman" of birddom, the crested flycatcher.

From Project Gutenberg

Far more tyrannical than the kingbird is this "wild Irishman," as John Burroughs calls the large flycatcher with the tousled head and harsh, uncanny voice, who prowls around the woods and orchards startling most feathered friends and foes with a loud, piercing exclamation that sounds like What!

From Project Gutenberg

"In the absence of a snake-skin, I have found an onion skin and shad scales in the nest," says John Burroughs, who calls this bird "the wild Irishman of the flycatchers."

From Project Gutenberg