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Sassenach

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





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"Sassenach" Quotes from Famous Books



... was by nature a serf, And he paid (when he could) for his land and his turf: But Cornelius, his friend, was a broth of a boy— The Sassenach's ...
— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley
... Dublin lawyer. "In a certain Catholic church which I regularly attend, and on a Sunday when were present two or three eminent Judges, with a considerable number of the Dublin aristocracy, a certain dignitary, whom I also will not name before our Sassenach friend, actually coupled the names of honest people who had died in their beds with the names of Curley and the other assassins who were hanged for the Phoenix Park murders. We were invited to pray for their souls en bloc! And this, mind ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
... now. Whin we wants to smash th' Sassenach an' restore th' land iv th' birth iv some iv us to her thrue place among th' nations, we gives a picnic. 'Tis a dam sight asier thin goin' over with a slug iv joynt powder an' blowin' up a polis station ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne


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