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omathaun

omathaun 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 omathaun

pluralomathauns

Questions about omathaun

What is omathaun the alternative form of?
Omathaun is the alternative form of omadhaun.

Words near omathaun in the dictionary

  1. omasitis
  2. omasum
  3. omasums
  4. omasus
  5. omata
  6. omathaun
  7. omathauns
  8. omato
  9. omaveloxolone
  10. Omawhaw
  11. Omawhaws

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