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Sas·senach (sasə nak′)

noun

an English person or Lowlander: term used, often disparagingly, by the Irish and Scots

Etymology: Ir Sasanach or Gael Sasunnach < Gael Sasunn, Saxon < Gmc, as in OE Seaxan, Saxon

Sassenach Quotes

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 Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

—Scott, Sir Walter

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