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A bean-nighe ('washerwoman') is a specific type of ban-sìth. [8]Both the Irish bean sídhe and the Scottish Gaelic ban-sìth (both meaning 'woman of the sídhe ', 'fairy woman' or 'woman of peace') are derived from the Old Irish ben síde, 'fairy woman': bean: 'woman', and sídhe: the genitive of 'fairy'.
Scottish Gaelic: Sasannach, in older literature Sacsannach / Sagsananch; the English language is Beurla. Sassenach is still used by Scottish speakers of English and Scots to refer to English people, mostly negatively. Cornish: Sows, plural Sowson; the English language is Sowsnek; Welsh: Sais, plural Saeson; the English language is Saesneg
British slang is English-language slang originating from and used in the United Kingdom and also used to a limited extent in Anglophone countries such as India, Malaysia, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, especially by British expatriates. It is also used in the United States to a limited extent.
The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-21259-5. Robinson, Mairi (1985). Concise Scots Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. ISBN 1-902930-00-2; Ronowicz, Eddie; Yallop, Colin (2006). English: One Language, Different Cultures. Continuum International Publishing Group.
A spaewife, spae-wife or spey-wife is a Scots language term for a fortune-telling woman. The term spae comes from Old Norse spá, meaning to prophesy.The name was used as the title of several works of fiction: Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "The Spaewife"; John Galt's historical romance The Spaewife: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles; and Paul Peppergrass's The Spaewife, or, The Queen's Secret.
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
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