breugaire

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish brécaire (“liar, deceiver; flatterer; hypocrite”). By surface analysis, breug (“lie”) +‎ -aire (agent noun suffix).

Noun

breugaire m (genitive singular breugaire, plural breugairean)

1. liar

Synonyms

• breugadair
• breugaiche

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “breugaire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brécaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language