sassenach

plural sassenachs · alternative Sassenach · alternative sasanach

1. ScotlandderogatoryAn English person.

   'I distinctly heard the barman at that pub last night refer to us as Sassenachs.' 'Well, why not?' said Frank equably. 'It only means "Englishman", after all, or at worst, outsider and we're all of that.' 'I know what it means. It was the tone I objected to.'

   1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 1, in Outlander, London: Random House

2. ScotlandderogatoryA Lowland Scot.

   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.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

plural Sassenachs

1. alternativeAlternative form of sassenach.

   Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 278