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

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sassenach¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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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."

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

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

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

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