amadan

[ah-muh-dawn]

noun

Irish.

1. fool.

Word History and Origins

Origin of amadan¹

< Irish amadán, diminutive (with suffix -án ) of amaid a foolish woman < *anmedy witless (< *an-man-t-i; mental ¹ ), crossed with *ameth (< *ambi-bito-; compare Old Irish baéth foolish) very foolish

Example Sentences

Drawing a term from Gaelic folklore, Dowd calls him "the most democracy-destroying, soul-crushing, self-obsessed amadán ever to occupy the Oval."

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Belfast’s Lyric had to cancel its co-production of 1984 with Bruiser Theatre Company but instead launched the initiative New Speak: Re-imagined, in which Northern Irish talents including Amadan Ensemble, Dominic Montague and Katie Richardson respond to the lockdown crisis.

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He had heard of one whom he did not wish to meet, the Green Harper: also of a grey man of the sea whom islesmen seldom alluded to by name: again, there was the Amadan Dhû ... but at that name Coll made the sign of the cross, and remembering what Father Allan had told him in South Uist, muttered a holy exorcism of the Trinity.

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"Aren't you the amadan to be biting the tongue between your teeth?" he said.

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He asked the Amadan who he was, and what he had done to have the impudence to come there and meet him.

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