shamrocky

comparative more shamrocky · superlative most shamrocky

1. Related to, resembling, or covered in shamrocks; by extension, stereotypically associated with Ireland.

   Lord Zetland had hardly a single tie to Ireland, save a few relations residing there ; nor does he own an acre of its shamrocky soil.

   1913, Edward Legge, More About King Edward, page 71

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   Everything was green and shamrocky, like Saint Patrick's day in a Polish saloon—the spirit was there but the main business was something else and in a different nationality.

   1992, Bill Granger, Drover, page 55

   When I was in eighth grade, Ireland was to me a green, shamrocky, distant land that kept the United States supplied with priests and nuns.

   1998, Mariá del Carmen Boza, Scattering the Ashes, page 149