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Sassenach

noun
1.
The Scots' term for an English person.





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"Sassenach" Quotes from Famous Books



... converse with them as you go. What do you find? Unity of feeling, aims, agreement of opinion on all possible subjects? Just the opposite! You find Jacob and Esau on every side struggling in the womb of their mother. The quarrel between Sassenach and Gael still goes on. What two figures can be found more antagonistic than the Orangeman of Ulster and the Milesian of Connaught? Yet they are both ...
— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud
... Duncan, "it was as harmonious as could pe expected, when the tae half o' the bodies were clavering Sassenach, and the t'other skirting Gaelic, like sea-maws and clackgeese before a storm. Ane wad hae needed the gift of tongues to ken preceesely what they said—but I pelieve the best end of it was, 'Long live MacCallummore and Knockdunder!'—And ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott


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