Irishize

present singular third person Irishizes · participle present Irishizing · participle past Irishized · past Irishized

1. to make Irish.

   What is not classical is that Carrora, in order to be a box-office attraction, had to Irishize his name.

   1994, George Eisen, David Kenneth Wiggins, Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture, Greenwood Press, →ISBN

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   I admit there are some recent importations of Catholics who would like to Germanize, Irishize, and whiskeyize America.

   1899, The Devil in Robes, Or the Sin of Priests: The Gory Hand of Catholicism Stayed; the Prayers of Protestants Heard, page 318

   Noelle was the one who had inherited the Germanic half of their Irish-Germanic father—her skin tanned and her hair was mud brown, despite several botched attempts to Irishize it with powdered cherry Kool-Aid mix.

   2007, Elise Juska, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN