English

Noun

Sassenach ‎(plural Sassenachs)

1. Alternative form of sassenach

English

Alternative forms

• Sassenach
• sasanach

Noun

sassenach ‎(plural sassenachs)

1. (Scotland, pejorative) An English person.
2. (Scotland, pejorative) A Lowland Scot.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops

     But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.

See also

• teuchter

Scots

Alternative forms

• sassanoch
• sassenagh
• sasennach
• sasunnach

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic sasunnach ‎(“Saxon”).

Noun

sassenach ‎(plural sassenachs)

1. (pejorative) An English person.
2. (pejorative) A Lowland Scot.