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schenachy, seanachaidh, seanachie, seanchaí, seanchaí, seannachie, seannachie, senachi, sennachai, sennachchy, sennachi, sennachie, sennachie, shanach, shanachy, shannach, shannachie, shannachie, shannachy, shannachy, sheanachie, shenach, shenachie, shennach, shennachie, shennachie, shennachy,
shenachie [ʃɛnaxɪ]
n. A stroryteller.
shenach U. Gossip.
From Scottish Gaelic seanchaidh or Irish seanchá. A teller of traditional stories.
Shenanigans, shennagins,
shenanigans [ʃəˈnanɪgənz]
n. pl. Trickery, foolery, mischeif, nonsense.
shen, shend, shent,
shent [ʃɛnt]
adj. Put to shame, ruined, confounded, undone.
sherrack, sherrackin, sherrakin, sherrickin, sherricking, sherrikin, sherrock, sherrockin, shirrack, shirrackin, shirrak, shirrakin, shirrickin, shirrik, shirrikin,
sherrock [ˈʃɛrək]
n. A noisy quarrel.
Compounds and phrases etc.
sherrockin [ˈʃɛrəkɪn]: Quarreling noisily. A public rebuke or dressing-down. A rabbling of someone, a holding-up of someone to public ridicule or hostility.
shairvil, shairvill, shervil, shervill, sherville,
shervil [ˈʃɛrvɪl]
n. Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium.
Hjaltland, Shaetlan, Shaetland, Shætlin, Sheitlan, Shetlan, Shetland, Shetlann, shitlan, Thule, Zetland,
Shetland [ʃɛtlən(d), MN. ʃitlən]
n. The name of the most distant group of islands off the north coast of Scotland. The dialect of Shetland. The Viking name was Hjaltland. The Ancient Greeks and Romans called the northernmost part of the habitable ancient world (Ultima) Thule.
scheuch, schuch, seuch, shaugh, sheuched, sheuchin, sheucht, sheugh, sheughin sheuch, shooch, shooched, shouch, shough, shough, shuch, shucht, shuck, shugh, sucht, The_Sheuch,
sheuch [S. ʃjux, EC. N. ʃux, WC. U. ʃ(j)ʌx, I. søx, ʃɔx]
n. A trench in the ground cut for drainage. A ditch, open drain. A trench or furrow into which plants are temporarily set until they can be finally transplanted or used. A furrow made by a plough. A street gutter.
v. To dig, trench, make a ditch or furrow in. Of peats: to dig out from a trench, to cast. To lay a plant etc. In the ground. To bury, to cover with earth.
pt. pp. sheucht adj. Burried, covered over.
Compounds and phrases etc.
sheuchin: Digging a trench or ditch, etc.
The Sheuch: col. The North Channel in the Irish Sea between Scotland and Ireland.
saw, sawe, sew, sewd, sewn, sewster, sewter, sew-up, shaave, shaave-up, shew, shewd, shewed, shewen, shewin, shewn, shewster, shewt, shew-up, shoo, shooed, shooin, shoo-up, shue,
shew [ʃuː]
v. To sew.
pt. shewed
pp. shewed, shewen
Compounds and phrases etc.
shewin: Sewing, needlework.
shewin-machine: A sewing-machine.
shewster [-stər]: A seamstress, a needle woman.
shew-up: The closure or shutting-down of a business.
scudder, shidder, shiddered, shiddert, shither, shithered, shithert, shudder,
shidder [ˈʃɪdər]
also S. shither [ˈʃɪðər] and scudder [ˈskʌdər]
n. A shudder, shiver.
v. To shudder, shiver.
pt. pp. shiddert, shiddered
sheelin, sheeling, sheil, sheilin, shiel, shield, shields, shielin, shieling,
shiel [ʃil]
n. A temporary rough hut or shed etc. A summer pasture with such a hut.
Compounds and phrases etc.
shielin [ˈʃilɪn]: A high summer pasture with hut. A roughly-made hut.
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