seannachie

plural seannachies · alternative schenachy · alternative seannachy · alternative senachie · alternative senachy · alternative sennachie · alternative sennachy · alternative shanachie · alternative shanachy · alternative shenachie

1. IrelandScotlandA bard, genealogist, or storyteller in Gaelic culture.

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   Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.

   1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 65