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Sassenach|ˈsæsənæx|
Also 8 Sassenaugh, Sacsanagh, 8–9 Sassenagh, Sassanagh, 9 Sacsanach.
[repr. Gael. Sasunnach adj. English, n. an Englishman = Irish Sasanach, Sacsanach, f. Sasan-, repr. the Teut. ethnic name Saxon. (Cf. Gael. Sasunn, Irish Sasana, Sacsain, England.)]
The name given by the Gaelic inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland to their ‘Saxon’ or English neighbours. (Sometimes attributed to Welsh speakers: the corresponding Welsh form is Seisnig.)
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 3 Sept., The Highlanders have no other name for the people of the low country, but Sassenaugh, or Saxons. 1814Scott Let. to Morritt 11 Nov. in Lockhart, I believe the frolics one can cut in this loose garb are all set down by you Sassenachs to the real agility of the wearer. a1820Drennan in Spirit of Nation (1845) 24 Unarm'd must thy sons and thy daughters await The Sassenagh's lust or the Sassenagh's hate. a1845T. O. Davis Fontenoy v, Revenge! remember Limerick! dash down the Sacsanach. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scot. ii. xiii. 410 note, A brave and patriotic Sassenach may be said to have wiped out this stain.
attrib.1869W. S. Gilbert Bab Ball. 187 All loved their McClan, save a Sassenach brute, Who came to the Highlands to fish and to shoot. |