achill

Meanings

adjectiveachill (not comparable)

not comparablechilled; chilly
[…] and the sunshine gleaming over all the bare country, warming the fields, which were all achill with hoar-frost an hour ago, into a fresh green like the green of spring, […]
1860, Margaret Oliphant, Lucy Crofton

proper noun

An island in County Mayo, the largest of the Irish isles.
He admits that, as a project, “it's a bit niche, but I think anybody who's been here develops a massive grá for Achill. […]”
2023 August 5, Lauren Murphy, quoting Graham Sweeney, “Sounds of Achill”, in Irish Independent Magazine, page 11

achill · adjective

From a- + chill.

Achill · proper noun

Borrowed from Irish Acaill.

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APA

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