Meanings
- A female given name from Scottish Gaelic.
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Poor Mhairi Smellie. Her first name, a Scots Gaelic name, was pronounced "vary", which sounded close to very. The name Smellie was common enough in Scotland, but to be called something which sounded like "very smelly" was a singular misfortune, and indicative, surely, of a lack of parental foresight.
2010, Alexander McCall Smith, The Importance of Being Seven, Polygon, →ISBN, page 13
Origin
- Scottish GaelicMàiri“Mary”
- EnglishMhairi
From Scottish Gaelic Màiri (“Mary”), which in the vocative case becomes a Mhàiri.
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Mhairi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mhairi
“Mhairi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mhairi. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Mhairi,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mhairi.
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