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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
scuaid f (genitive singular scuaide, nominative plural scuaideanna)
- spatter, splash, splatter
- scuaid láibe ― splash of mud
- (veterinary medicine) diarrhea; (colloquial) diarrhea (in humans)
- Synonym: scaoing
- sloppy, untidy person
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Further reading
- “scuaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “scuaid”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “scuaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 59