kinnatt

plural kinnatts · alternative canatt · alternative cannatt · alternative kinat

1. IrelandA mean or unpleasant person; a trickster, a rascal.

   ‘Ye're a parcel of white-livered kinats,’ said Lynch.

   1905, Patrick Augustine Sheehan, Glenanaar, page 157

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   Gerty could see by her looking as black as thunder that she was simply in a towering rage though she hid it, the little kinnatt, because that shaft had struck home for her petty jealousy […].

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13: Nausicaa]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 346

   Oh when it comes to being a cannatt that fella don't need any help.

   1988, Billy Roche, A Handful of Stars, Act II, Scene 2