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Manx

adjective

Of or relating to the Isle of Man or its inhabitants or their language. "There are few Manx speakers alive today"

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Etymology of 'Manx'

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Manx shearwater

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"Manx" Quotes from Famous Books

... obscure word was "Celtic"; and the hardihood of the guesser was often made to take the place of evidence. The fact is that there is no such language as "Celtic"; it is the name of a group of languages, including "British" or Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Manx, Gaelic, and Irish; and it is now incumbent on the etymologist to cite the exact forms in one or more of these on which he relies, so as to adduce some semblance of proof. The result has been an extraordinary shrinkage in the number of alleged Celtic words. The number, ...

— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat

... Why, the boat is gone! what prank next? Thou careless unthrift, ill-luck follows i' thy wake. She has slipped anchor, and the little Kitty is gone to the Manx herring-boats. I am ruined, thou limb of ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby

... enjoyed the sound of the horn for some miles, and it was not till he arrived at his sister's house that he learned the danger which he had incurred. I must not omit to mention that these little personages are expert jockeys, and scorn to ride the little Manx ponies, though apparently well suited to their size. The exercise, therefore, falls heavily upon the English and Irish horses brought into the Isle of Man. Mr. Waldron was assured by a gentleman of Ballafletcher that he had lost three or four capital hunters by these nocturnal excursions. ...

— Folk-Lore and Legends - Scotland • Anonymous

Words linked to "Manx" : Erse, domestic cat, Gaelic, Manx cat, man, Manx shearwater, Felis catus, Felis domesticus, Goidelic, house cat