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Sawney en · NOUN

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1. (archaic, derogatory) A Scotsman.
   • He took the gibe and scowled at me--he spoke always like a Sawney, and could never pass for English; but in his pleasure at the discovery he had made he let the word pass. 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XIV, in Shrewsbury:
   • “They can live upon barley-meal without a morsel of meat from week-end to week-end, can these miserable Sawnies,” quoth another. 1874 July–December, W. Senior, “With the Herring Fleet”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, page 704:

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Jock

Sawney en · PROPN

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1. A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, of Scots origin.
   • Sawney Bean
   • But Sawney grew weary, and fain would be civil, / Being auld, and unfeary, and fail'd of his strength 1812, John Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards, page 185:

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