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shellycoats

shellycoats is the plural of shellycoat.

Meaning of shellycoat

Noun

shellycoat (plural shellycoats)

  1. (Scotland) A mythical water creature wearing a coat made of shells.
    • This country is also the abode of Shellycoat, who haunts Shetland and the Orkneys.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 172

Questions about shellycoats

What is shellycoats the plural of?
Shellycoats is the plural of shellycoat.

Words near shellycoats in the dictionary

  1. shellworking
  2. shellworks
  3. shelly
  4. Shelly Beach
  5. shellycoat
  6. shellycoats
  7. Shelman
  8. Shelmans
  9. Shelmerdine
  10. Shelmerdines
  11. Shelnutt

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