stuaic
Irish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editstuaic f (genitive singular stuaice, nominative plural stuaiceanna)
- huff (condition of anger, annoyance etc.), huffiness, sulk, (fit of) pique, pet (fit of petulance)
- Chuir a cuid cainte stuaic orm.
- I took offense at what she said.
- (literally, “Her talk put a huff on me.”)
- peak (point, sharp end)
- (geology) pinnacle (craggy rock)
- (architecture) pinnacle (upright member), spire
- stuaic eaglaise ― church spire
- (geometry) vertex (corner of a polygon or polyhedron)
- hair on the crown of the head
- inclination of the head
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editFurther reading
edit- “stuaic”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “stuaic”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 698
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “stuaic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN