breugaire
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish brécaire (“liar, deceiver; flatterer; hypocrite”); synchronically, breug (“lie”) + -aire (agent noun suffix).
Noun
breugaire m (genitive singular breugaire, plural breugairean)
- liar
Synonyms
- breugadair
- breugaiche
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “breugaire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “brécaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language