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Sas·se·nach
   [sas-uh-nuhkh, -nak] Show IPA

noun
an English inhabitant of the British Isles: used, often disparagingly, by the gaelic inhabitants.


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Origin:
1765–75; < Scots Gaelic Sasunnach, Irish Sasanach English, English person, Protestant, MIr Saxanach, derivative of Saxain, Sagsuin, Sachsain the Saxons, England ≪ Late Latin Saxonēs; see Saxon

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hank

Donald Nicolson wrote:Yes you are right there, that is the kind of thing they use for stocked rainbows on the
English reservoirs. I copied that from a fly catalogue catering to that trade.
As we jazz fans used to say in the fifties and sixties, that just ain't my bag.
Our old friend Mark Romero would have appreciated that remark.
And who are you calling a sassenach, I'm 3/4 Scots and 1/4 Irish, and that is not by
absorption.

I can assure u Donald that I wasnt calling u one only referring to the lineage of the marabouised versions of trad irish and scottish wets - jeez , even seen a concoction on T&S with a bead head, some sort of razzle dazzle fritzy body and they called it a Claret Bumble, the old judge would have been turning in his grave.