Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Irish-assurance
subs. (old).—See quot.
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1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. IRISH APRICOTS … IRISH ASSURANCE, a bold forward behaviour; it is said a dipping in the Shannon annihilates bashfulness.
