Sassenach

What is Sassenach?


1.

The Gaelic term for a Saxon. Survives in modern day Ireland and Scotland as a derogatory term for an English person.

I went into a pub in Templebar but it was full of Sassenachs so i left straight away.

See english, nobs, tourists, brits

2.

A Scot's term for an english person. Supposedly said with mirth but often containing thinly veiled hostility.

Och. A sassenach.

See englishman


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