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shenachie

shenachie 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 shenachie

pluralshenachies

Questions about shenachie

What is shenachie the alternative form of?
Shenachie is the alternative form of seannachie.

Words near shenachie in the dictionary

  1. shen rings
  2. Shen-hsi
  3. Shen-Kan-Ning
  4. Shen-nung-chia
  5. Shen-yang
  6. shenachie
  7. shenachies
  8. shenai
  9. shenais
  10. Shenandoah
  11. Shenandoah beard

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