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Sawney

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Sawney [ˈsɔːnɪ]
n
1. (Social Science / Peoples) a derogatory word for Scotsman
2. (also not capital) Informal a fool
[a Scots variant of Sandy, short for Alexander]


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Kelpies and water-horses The Vampire with Iron Teeth SAWNEY and his wife reputedly lived with their children and grandchildren in a cave where they survived by luring travellers, robbing them, killing them and eating their flesh.
Sawney Beane Frieda Gates Cambridge House Press c/o Sterling & Ross Publishers 115 W.
Hiding in the shadows of the subterranean lair was Sawney Beane and his hideously deformed family who had killed and eaten more than 1,000 people during a 25-year reign of terror.
 
 
 
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