Irish Traveller
English
Alternative forms
- Irish Traveler
Noun
Irish Traveller (plural Irish Travellers)
- (Ireland) A member of a particular nomadic ethnic minority in Ireland, the Pavee.
Synonyms
- Traveller
- Traveler
- Minkier (endonym)
- Pavee / pavee (derogatory) (endonym)
- Pikie / pikie (derogatory)
- Pikey / pikey (derogatory)
- Gypsy (proscribed) (the Pavee are not descendants of the Romani)
Hypernyms
- Irish
- Gael
- Celt
- European
- Caucasian
- Caucasoid
Coordinate terms
- Shelta (the language of the Irish Travellers)
Translations
member of a minority in Ireland
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