Word.ws English Dictionary

seannachies

seannachies is the plural of seannachie.

seannachies is the plural of seannachy.

Meaning of seannachie

Noun

seannachie (plural seannachies)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland) A bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
    • Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of...1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 65

Questions about seannachies

What is seannachies the plural of?
Seannachies is the plural of seannachie.

Words near seannachies in the dictionary

  1. seances
  2. seancing
  3. seaned
  4. seaning
  5. seannachie
  6. seannachies
  7. seannachy
  8. seans
  9. seaperch
  10. seaperches
  11. seapiece

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: seannachies (page history and authors); seannachie (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “seannachies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/seannachies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.