weep Irishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the extravagant displays of emotion associated with professional mourners at traditional Irish funerals.

動詞

weep Irish (三人称単数 現在形 weeps Irish, 現在分詞 weeping Irish, 過去形および過去分詞形 wept Irish)

1. (idiomatic, dated) To cry insincerely or in an exaggerated manner.
   • 1843, Nathanael Burton, History of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, near Dublin:

     I have here omitted the pathetic description of Billy Flannagan, touching the doleful parting of Cathleen with her people, "who wept Irish," hullaghlued, ahahoned, with all the moving circumstances of her farewell, and the seeing her home.

   • 1905, Bede Camm, Lives of the English Martyrs (Vol. 2):

     All this while, above in chambers looking out, we saw the long-bearded ministers of Geneva who laughed at us; but if we might have had our wills we would have made them to have wept Irish.

   • 2007, Mary Kelly Black, Lovely, Lonely Life: a Woman's Village Journal (Vol. 1):

     She never confesed to me this seed of my disorder, but "wept Irish" to others, how I had shed tears at birth before my first sound.

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