smachtín

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From smacht (subjection; restraint) + -ín (diminutive)

Pronunciation

Noun

smachtín m (genitive singular smachtín, nominative plural smachtíní)

  1. cudgel, baton, club, bludgeon, truncheon, blackjack
    Synonym: cleith
  2. short, stout person

Declension

References

  1. smachtín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “smaiċtín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 658
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 93

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