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seannachy

seannachy is the alternative form of seannachie.

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

Forms of seannachy

pluralseannachies

Questions about seannachy

What is seannachy the alternative form of?
Seannachy is the alternative form of seannachie.

Words near seannachy in the dictionary

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

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