English Dictionary

seannachie

noun

(Highland, Scotland) A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes. / A genealogist.

The seannachie told tales of ancient Highland legends.

意味（1）

(Highland, Scotland) A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes.

Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.

意味（2）

A genealogist.