English

Alternative forms

• seannachy
• senachy
• sennachie

Noun

seannachie ‎(plural seannachies)

1. A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes.
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.65:

     Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil - why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated - they are all of the tribe of Macfungus - mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.

2. A genealogist.