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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From smacht (“subjection; restraint”) + -ín (diminutive)
Pronunciation
Noun
smachtín m (genitive singular smachtín, nominative plural smachtíní)
- cudgel, baton, club, bludgeon, truncheon, blackjack
- Synonym: cleith
- short, stout person
Declension
References
- ^ “smachtín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “smaiċtín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 658
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 93
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