Sassenachadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsasənax/,

/ˈsasənak/, U.S.

/ˈsæsəˌnæk/, Scottish English

/ˈsasənəx/,

/ˈsasənax/, Irish English

/ˈsɒːsənəx/

Forms: 1700s Sassenaugh, 1700s–1800s Sasenach, 1700s–1800s Sassanagh, 1700s–1800s Sassenagh, 1800s Sacsanach, 1800s Sacsanagh, 1800s Sass'nach, 1800s– Sassenach, 1900s Sassunach, 1900s– Sasennach. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic and Irish. Etymons: Scottish Gaelic Sasannach, Irish Sasanach

Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic Sasannach and Irish Sasanach (also Sacsanach: see note) (adjective) English, (noun) an Englishman (Early Irish Saxanach, adjective and noun; < Saxain, the name of England (see note) + -ach, suffix forming adjectives expressing belonging).The Early Irish place name Saxain England (Irish †Sacsain , Scottish Gaelic Sasainn ; compare Irish Sasana ) originated as a specific use of the plural noun Saxain , denoting the Anglo-Saxons ( < post-classical Latin Saxones , plural of Saxo Saxon n.). Compare also Early Irish Saxa (noun) Anglo-Saxon (directly < post-classical Latin Saxo ) and further Welsh Sais (noun) Anglo-Saxon, Englishman (12th cent., earliest in plural Saesson ). Earlier parallel. Compare the following earlier passage, which shows the plural of the Scottish Gaelic word (now written Sasannaich ) in an English context:1706 Earl of Cromarty Let. conc. Union 6 The Irish and we call them [sc. the English] Sassanich, in Latin Saxi or Saxoni. With the forms Sacsanagh and Sacsanach compare Irish Sacsanach, variant of Sasanach, originally in the same sense, but now chiefly used historically to refer to the Anglo-Saxons.

Frequently somewhat derogatory.

A. adj.

1. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. Of or relating to England or its inhabitants; English.

ΚΠ

1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii The commander has sent for her to play a spring to the sasenach damsel.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 272 He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sasenach laird is a gentleman-drover.

1838 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 377/1 The same dirty tribe of Sassenagh grubbers..were stupid enough to return for the purpose of still digging deeper in quest of money.

1869 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 187 All loved their McClan, save a Sassenach brute, Who came to the Highlands to fish and to shoot.

1954 Irish Press 18 Aug. 6/5 Far from being welcomed as liberators from the sassenach yoke Lieutenant Proteau and his crew were promptly made prisoners.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 14 Aug. 3 Scottish architects and their patrons have rarely heeded Sassenach opinion.

2016 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 5 Why is it that us Jocks can say whatever we want about our Sassenach neighbours and yet recoil at even the slightest hint of criticism when it comes from the other side of Hadrian's Wall?

2. Scottish. Of or relating to the Lowlands of Scotland or its inhabitants.

ΚΠ

1867 J. Mackenzie Hist. Scotl. lxxviii. 606 The Sassenach Government had brought them down from their hills with free leave to rob the Sassenach subjects.

1872 61st Ann. Rep. Soc. for Support of Gaelic Schools 7 After a century of misdirected zeal in trying to make the inhabitants forget their native language and take kindly to the foreign tongue of the Sassenach Lowlands, it was seen that many parts of the Highlands and Island continued in a state of great ignorance.

1915 Sat. Rev. 1 May 453/2 The Sassenach lowlanders of Scotland are allied in race to the English and not to the highland Celts.

2007 J. Paisley White Rose Rebel viii. 65 Short-haired cattle were plundered from further south in Scotland or England, fattened in the glens then sold back to the Sassenach Lowlanders.

B. n.

1. Scottish. In the usage of Scottish Highlanders: a person from either the Lowlands of Scotland or England.

ΚΠ

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 21 The Highlanders have no other name for the people of the Low-country, but Sassenach, or Saxons.

1867 J. Mackenzie Hist. Scotl. lxxviii. 608 A body of ten thousand Highlanders was mustered, half savage clansmen from the mountains, hating with an ancient grudge the ‘Sassenach’, or Lowlanders.

1892 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 507 Union with the Lowland Sassenachs of Scotland was bad enough. Union with the English Sassenachs was worse.

1919 Travel Sept. 16/1 The Highlanders are Celts, the Lowlanders are Saxons—‘Sassenachs’ we call the ‘poor south bodies’!

1987 Economist 10 Oct. 33/1 There is a healthy chauvinism, a determination to show the Sassenachs (lowlanders, that is, and those from unspeakable places yet further south) how things ought to be done.

2014 @the46drifter in twitter.com 27 Oct. (O.E.D. Archive) Your [sic] no celt ur a bloody sassenach a lowlander.

2017 Scotsman (Nexis) 10 Oct. Waitt's career crossed one of the great fault-lines of Scottish history—Lowland and Highland, Sassenach and Gael.

2. Scottish and Irish English. An English person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England

EnglishmaneOE

EnglishOE

startc1438

Southron1488

Englander1610

knife-man1643

Englisher1652

southern1721

John Bull1772

Saxon1810

Sassenach1815

rosbif1826

Goddam1830

Angrezi1866

Angrez1877

Percy1916

Limey1918

woodbine1918

homie1926

kipper1946

1737 J. Drummond Mem. Locheill (1842) 113 The English (or ‘Sassanoch’, that is, Saxons, as they call them in their language).]

1815 W. Scott Let. 21 Jan. (1933) IV. 19 I believe the frolics one can cut in this loose garb are all set down by you Sassenach to the real agility of the wearer.

a1845 T. O. Davis Poems (1846) 152 Revenge! remember Limerick! dash down the Sacsanach!

1957 Economist 30 Nov. 804/2 The Commercial Bank is engaged on a nationalist enterprise—clawing back from the Sassenachs, control of one of Scotland's banks.

2017 @Andrew_Wyld 16 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Irn Bru is a nuanced and subtle beverage ye sassenachs will never understand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sassenach
释义	Sassenachadj.n. Brit. /ˈsasənax/, /ˈsasənak/, U.S. /ˈsæsəˌnæk/, Scottish English /ˈsasənəx/, /ˈsasənax/, Irish English /ˈsɒːsənəx/ Forms: 1700s Sassenaugh, 1700s–1800s Sasenach, 1700s–1800s Sassanagh, 1700s–1800s Sassenagh, 1800s Sacsanach, 1800s Sacsanagh, 1800s Sass'nach, 1800s– Sassenach, 1900s Sassunach, 1900s– Sasennach. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from Scottish Gaelic and Irish. Etymons: Scottish Gaelic Sasannach, Irish Sasanach Etymology: < Scottish Gaelic Sasannach and Irish Sasanach (also Sacsanach: see note) (adjective) English, (noun) an Englishman (Early Irish Saxanach, adjective and noun; < Saxain, the name of England (see note) + -ach, suffix forming adjectives expressing belonging).The Early Irish place name Saxain England (Irish †Sacsain , Scottish Gaelic Sasainn ; compare Irish Sasana ) originated as a specific use of the plural noun Saxain , denoting the Anglo-Saxons ( < post-classical Latin Saxones , plural of Saxo Saxon n.). Compare also Early Irish Saxa (noun) Anglo-Saxon (directly < post-classical Latin Saxo ) and further Welsh Sais (noun) Anglo-Saxon, Englishman (12th cent., earliest in plural Saesson ). Earlier parallel. Compare the following earlier passage, which shows the plural of the Scottish Gaelic word (now written Sasannaich ) in an English context:1706 Earl of Cromarty Let. conc. Union 6 The Irish and we call them [sc. the English] Sassanich, in Latin Saxi or Saxoni. With the forms Sacsanagh and Sacsanach compare Irish Sacsanach, variant of Sasanach, originally in the same sense, but now chiefly used historically to refer to the Anglo-Saxons. Frequently somewhat derogatory. A. adj. 1. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. Of or relating to England or its inhabitants; English. ΚΠ 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii The commander has sent for her to play a spring to the sasenach damsel. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 272 He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sasenach laird is a gentleman-drover. 1838 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 377/1 The same dirty tribe of Sassenagh grubbers..were stupid enough to return for the purpose of still digging deeper in quest of money. 1869 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 187 All loved their McClan, save a Sassenach brute, Who came to the Highlands to fish and to shoot. 1954 Irish Press 18 Aug. 6/5 Far from being welcomed as liberators from the sassenach yoke Lieutenant Proteau and his crew were promptly made prisoners. 1991 Independent (Nexis) 14 Aug. 3 Scottish architects and their patrons have rarely heeded Sassenach opinion. 2016 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Nov. 5 Why is it that us Jocks can say whatever we want about our Sassenach neighbours and yet recoil at even the slightest hint of criticism when it comes from the other side of Hadrian's Wall? 2. Scottish. Of or relating to the Lowlands of Scotland or its inhabitants. ΚΠ 1867 J. Mackenzie Hist. Scotl. lxxviii. 606 The Sassenach Government had brought them down from their hills with free leave to rob the Sassenach subjects. 1872 61st Ann. Rep. Soc. for Support of Gaelic Schools 7 After a century of misdirected zeal in trying to make the inhabitants forget their native language and take kindly to the foreign tongue of the Sassenach Lowlands, it was seen that many parts of the Highlands and Island continued in a state of great ignorance. 1915 Sat. Rev. 1 May 453/2 The Sassenach lowlanders of Scotland are allied in race to the English and not to the highland Celts. 2007 J. Paisley White Rose Rebel viii. 65 Short-haired cattle were plundered from further south in Scotland or England, fattened in the glens then sold back to the Sassenach Lowlanders. B. n. 1. Scottish. In the usage of Scottish Highlanders: a person from either the Lowlands of Scotland or England. ΚΠ 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 21 The Highlanders have no other name for the people of the Low-country, but Sassenach, or Saxons. 1867 J. Mackenzie Hist. Scotl. lxxviii. 608 A body of ten thousand Highlanders was mustered, half savage clansmen from the mountains, hating with an ancient grudge the ‘Sassenach’, or Lowlanders. 1892 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 507 Union with the Lowland Sassenachs of Scotland was bad enough. Union with the English Sassenachs was worse. 1919 Travel Sept. 16/1 The Highlanders are Celts, the Lowlanders are Saxons—‘Sassenachs’ we call the ‘poor south bodies’! 1987 Economist 10 Oct. 33/1 There is a healthy chauvinism, a determination to show the Sassenachs (lowlanders, that is, and those from unspeakable places yet further south) how things ought to be done. 2014 @the46drifter in twitter.com 27 Oct. (O.E.D. Archive) Your [sic] no celt ur a bloody sassenach a lowlander. 2017 Scotsman (Nexis) 10 Oct. Waitt's career crossed one of the great fault-lines of Scottish history—Lowland and Highland, Sassenach and Gael. 2. Scottish and Irish English. An English person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England EnglishmaneOE EnglishOE startc1438 Southron1488 Englander1610 knife-man1643 Englisher1652 southern1721 John Bull1772 Saxon1810 Sassenach1815 rosbif1826 Goddam1830 Angrezi1866 Angrez1877 Percy1916 Limey1918 woodbine1918 homie1926 kipper1946 1737 J. Drummond Mem. Locheill (1842) 113 The English (or ‘Sassanoch’, that is, Saxons, as they call them in their language).] 1815 W. Scott Let. 21 Jan. (1933) IV. 19 I believe the frolics one can cut in this loose garb are all set down by you Sassenach to the real agility of the wearer. a1845 T. O. Davis Poems (1846) 152 Revenge! remember Limerick! dash down the Sacsanach! 1957 Economist 30 Nov. 804/2 The Commercial Bank is engaged on a nationalist enterprise—clawing back from the Sassenachs, control of one of Scotland's banks. 2017 @Andrew_Wyld 16 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Irn Bru is a nuanced and subtle beverage ye sassenachs will never understand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1757
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