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English
Etymology
From Irish seanchaí and Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh, from Old Irish senchaid.
Pronunciation
Noun
seannachie (plural seannachies)
- (Ireland, Scotland) a bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.
1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 65: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 conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.
References
- “seannachie, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC, retrieved 1 October 2024.
- “seannachie, noun.”, in Collins English Dictionary, accessed 1 October 2024.
- Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SEANNACHIE, sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 309.