sassenach
See also: Sassenach
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic sasunnach (“Saxon”).
Pronunciation
- (England) IPA(key): /ˈsæs.ə.næk/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈsas.ə.nax/
Noun
sassenach (plural sassenachs)
- (Scotland, pejorative) An English person.
- (Scotland, pejorative) A Lowland Scot.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:
- But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.
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See also
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic sasunnach (“Saxon”).
Noun
sassenach (plural sassenachs)
- (pejorative) An English person.
- (pejorative) A Lowland Scot.
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