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Sassenach

[ sas-uh-nuhkh, -nak ]

noun

, Often Disparaging.
  1. a term used by the Gaelic inhabitants of the British Isles to refer to the English inhabitants.


Sassenach

/ ˈsæsəˌnæk; -næx /

noun

  1. an English person or a Lowland Scot
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sassenach1

1765–75; < Scots Gaelic Sasunnach, Irish Sasanach English, English person, Protestant, Middle Irish Saxanach, derivative of Saxain, Sagsuin, Sachsain the Saxons, England ≪ Late Latin Saxonēs; Saxon
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Sassenach1

C18: from Scot Gaelic Sasunnach, Irish Sasanach, from Late Latin saxonēs Saxons
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Example Sentences

Wallace suffered many things during his life, but it was not a Sassenach who did this.

A thief was one who stole a cow from a poor cotter, but he who lifted a drove from a Sassenach laird was "a gentleman drover."

Sassenach, sas′e-nah, n. a Saxon: an Englishman: a Lowlander.

Then gang and tell your mammy, my man, there's twa Sassenach gentlemen come to speak wi' her.

To this day the monarch's words are true; one end of Nairn is Gaelic, the other Sassenach.

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