breugaire

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brécaire (“liar, deceiver; flatterer; hypocrite”); synchronically, breug (“lie”) +‎ -aire (agent noun suffix).

Noun

breugaire m (genitive singular breugaire, plural breugairean)

  1. liar

Synonyms

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “brécaire” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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