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sheela-na-gigs

sheela-na-gigs is the plural of sheela-na-gig.

Meaning of sheela-na-gig

Noun

sheela-na-gig (plural sheela-na-gigs)

  1. A carving of a naked woman with an exaggerated vulva, found in old British and Irish architecture, perhaps used to ward off death and evil.

Questions about sheela-na-gigs

What is sheela-na-gigs the plural of?
Sheela-na-gigs is the plural of sheela-na-gig.

Words near sheela-na-gigs in the dictionary

  1. sheek kebabs
  2. Sheeks
  3. Sheekses
  4. Sheela
  5. sheela-na-gig
  6. sheela-na-gigs
  7. Sheeler
  8. Sheelers
  9. sheelies
  10. sheelin
  11. sheeling

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