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amadan

amadan is the alternative form of omadhaun.

Meaning of omadhaun

Noun

omadhaun (plural omadhauns)

  1. (Ireland) A fool or simpleton; someone out of their senses.
    • "Av haith!" sez Tom, burstin' out laughin'. "Shure you don't take me to be sich an omedhaun as to b'lieve that?" "Do as ye plase," sez he, "but what I tell ye is the raal thruth."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 374

Forms of amadan

pluralamadans

Questions about amadan

What is amadan the alternative form of?
Amadan is the alternative form of omadhaun.

Words near amadan in the dictionary

  1. Amackers
  2. amacratic
  3. amacrinal
  4. amacrine
  5. amacrines
  6. amadan
  7. amadans
  8. amadavat
  9. amadavats
  10. amadawn
  11. amadawns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amadan (page history and authors); omadhaun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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