–Holly

abaisd (n.m.) – – a brat
abarach (n.f.) – a bold, brazen woman
ablach (n.m.) – a mangled carcass; a brat
agarrach (n.m.) – a pretender
aigeannach (n.f.) – a self-willed, boisterous woman
aigeantach (n.f.) – a turbulent female
ainmhide (n.m.) – a rash fool
áiteag (n.f.) – a shy girl
amadan (n.m.) – a foolish man, a simpleton
amadan-mòintich (n.m.) – a dotterel
amaid (n.f.) – a foolish woman
amarlaid (n.m.) – a blustering or careless woman
amhas, amhasg (n.m.) – a wild man, madman, blundering fool
amhlair (n.m.) – a fool, a boar
anacriosd (n.m.) – antichrist
anacrìosduidh (n.m.) – infidel, pagan, heathen
an-duine (n.m.) – a decrepit person, a wicked woman
an-ìochdaire (n.m.) – a tyrant
ànrach (n.m.) – wanderer, stranger, subject of misfortune
anstruidhear (n.m.) – prodigal, spendthrift, squanderer
antighearn (n.m.) – a tyrant, oppressor, despot
aog (n.m.) – a specter, a skeleton; "Is tuan t-aog duanidh" = "You are a miserable-looking skeleton".
aotroman (n.m.) – a giddy person; a bladder
àpas (n.f.) – a silly. vain woman (based on ape)
arpag (n.f.) – a harpy
arrabhalach (n.m.) – a traitor, a treacherous person, a person that conceals himself in a house to bear away bad tidings.
arrach, arrachd (n.m.) – a dwarf, a specter, contemptible person
asgan (n.m.) – a grig, a merry creature, a dwarf
àsruidh (n.m.) – a puny creature, pining
astail (n.m.) – a contemptible fellow
babag (n.f.) – a filthy female
babhdaire (n.m.) – a tale-teller, useless person
bagaire (n.m.) – a corpulent man, a glutton
bagan (n.m.) – a diminutive fellow; a little bag
baganach (n.m.) – small, corpulent fellow
baghaire (n.m.) – a fool, a dolt
bailisdear (n.m.) – a babbler
bainisg (n.f.) – a little old woman
bàirseag (n.f.) – a scold, a shrew
baisceall (n.m.) – wild person, a lunatic
balgan-peasrach (n.m.) – a pea-bellied fat boy
balgaire (n.m.) – a fox, dog, a mean man
bana-bhuidseach (n.f.) – a witch
ban-àibhistear (n.f.) – a she-devil, a fury, a virago
ban-ìfrionnach (n.f.) – a she-devil, a furious female
baobach (n.f.) – a female easily frightened; panic
baobaire (n.m.) – panic-stricken or easily-frightened man
baobh (n.f.) –a wicked, mischievous one, a fury, witch
baogaideach (n.f.) – a fanciful, whimsical female
baoit (n.f.) – a foolish, giddy female
baothaire (n.m.) – a simpleton, a fool
baothan (n.m.) – blockhead bàrraisg (n.m.) – boaster, braggadocio
bàthghiullan (n.m.) – a simple or foolish lad
bàthiaoch (n.m.) – simple, foolish fellow
beadag (n.f) a petulant female
beadagan (n.m.) – a petulant man
bearradair (n.m.) – a taunting fellow; barber, giber
bèileanach (n.f.) – a prating, garrulous female
beurradair (n.m.) – a wit, a wag, a satirist
bearran (n.m.) – a witty, prating, garrulous little fellow
bidse (n.f.) – a bad woman (from the English)
bilistear (n.m.) – a mean fellow, a glutton
biodan (n.m.) – a baby boy, a bickering fellow
biodanach (n.f.) – a bickering, eternally scolding or complaining woman
blabhdair (n.m.) – babbler, a howling, babbling, clumsy simpleton
bladaire (n.m.) – a babbler, a flatterer
blaodhag (n.f.) – a noisy girl
blaomag (n.f) a silly woman
blaomaire (n.m.) – a fellow that stares like a fool, a man that is easily frightened
blaomastair (n.m.) – a blusterer, witless fellow
bleachdair (n.m.) – a flattering fellow
bleidire (n.m.) – genteel beggar, a mean, obtrusive man, a coward
blobaran (n.m.) – stammerer
bloinigean (n.m.) – a fat child
bòcan (n.m.) – a hobgoblin, a bogle
bodach (n.m.) –an old man, a churl or niggardly fellow
boganach (n.m.) – a soft, simple, booby-like fellow
boidsear (n.m.) – a blockhead, a stupid fellow
boirgeach (n.f.) – a prating female
boirgire (n.m.) – fellow with a little screwed-up mouth, a tattler
boisceal (n.m.) – a savage man or woman
bolgaire (n.m.) – a man with a big belly, a glutton
bollsgach (n.f.) – a blustering, curious female
bollsgaire (n.m.) – a blustering, swaggering, bullying man
bonnachair (n.m.) – a wandering greedy beggar
borrach (n.m.) – a haughty man
bòsdair (n.m.) – a swaggerer
brabhdair (n.m.) – a bandy-legged man, a boaster
brachag (n.f.) – a squat, shapeless woman or thing
bradag (n.f.) – a thievish female
bradaidh (n.m.) – a thief, the devil
bragadair (n.m.) – a boaster
braidean (n.m.) – sneak, the evil one
bramaire (n.m.) – a noisy fellow
bramanach (n.m.) – awkward man, blusterer, bungler
branach (n.f.) – a corpulent, big-bellied female
brannair (n.m.) – a corpulent man
brathadair (n.m.) – an informer, betrayer, traitor, knave
bréineag (n.f.) –turbulent female, a dirty, sulky woman
bréinean (n.m.) – a turbulent fellow, a sulky or inhospitable man
breugadair (n.m.) – a liar
breugag (n.f.) – a lying little female
breugaire (n.m.) – a liar
breunach (n.f.) – a turbulent, indelicate, or immodest female
breunag (n.f.) – a wild, mean woman
breunain (n.m.) – a mean character, the devil
brimin (n.m.) – a shabby carle
briogaid (n.f.) – a little, elderly, morose, miserly female
briollaire (n.m.) – a lewd person
briosaid (n.f.) – a witch, sorceress; a girdle or belt
broineach (n.f.) – a ragged woman; a ragged garment
brolachan (n.m.) – a ragged person
bruachaire (n.m.) – a hoverer, a sullen fellow
bruchag (n.f.) – a little, untidy woman; a leaky boat
brùid (n.m.) – a brutal person, a beast, brute
brùideag (n.f.) – a little brute or beast
bruillidh (n.m.) – a man of clumsy figure and of awkward, unwieldy motion
brùillig (n.m.) – a person of clumsy figure and gait
buamasdair (n.m.) – blockhead, turbulent man, noisy fool
buanna (n.m.) – billeted soldier, champions billeted on the people at will, a mercenary developed into a parasite, an idler
bùbaire (n.m.) – a person that blubbers
buidseach, buitseach (n.f.) – a witch, a wizard
bumailear (n.m.) – a booby, blockhead, a clumsy fellow, bungler
bungaid (n.f.) – clumsy fat woman, a sullen dour person, a hussy burgaid (n.m.) – an awkward or noisy man; a fit of temper
burracaid (n.f.) – a stupid female, a silly woman
burraidh (n.m.) – a bully, a fool
bùrsach (n.m.) – a stormy fellow; a torrent of rain
busaire (n.m.) – a man having pouting lips, a sullen fellow
cabadair (n.m.) – a man who keeps no secret
cabag (n.f.) – a woman with broken teeth; a hacked instrument such as a knife; a tattling, prating female
cabaire (n.m.) – a man with broken teeth, a tattler; prating fellow
caillteanach (n.m.) – a eunuch
cairbinneach (n.m.) – a toothless person
càireag (n.f.) – a prating girl
caisean (n.m.) – a short-tempered person; a curl, dewlap
car-fhaclaiche (n.m.) – a quibbler
carrachan (n.m.) – a little, old fashioned fellow; a lumpfish, chub
ceafan (n.m.) – a frivolous person; part of a plough
céalaideach (n.m.) – a miserable-looking person
cealgaire (n.m.) – a hypocrite, a cheat, a rogue, a deceiver
cearchaill (n.f.) – an unwieldy person; a pillow
ceatharn-choille (n.f.) – outlaws, freebooters
cèiseach (n.f.) – a large, corpulent woman
ceòlan (n.m.) – a humdrum of a person; one quite bewildered
cibhearg (n.f.) – a little ragged woman; a rag
cìleag (n.f.) – a frail old woman, a weak, unmanly fellow
ciùrradair (n.m.) – tormentor
clabag (n.f.) – a garrulous female, thick-lipped female
clabaire (n.m.) – a babbler, a prater
clabastair (n.m.) – a brawler
cladhaire (n.m.) – a coward, a poltroon, "clod-hopper"
clàrach (n.f.) – clumsy female; (a) belonging to staves, of staves
cleasaiche (n.m.) – a trickster, juggler, cunning fellow, conjuror
clibiste (n.m.) – an awkward fellow
cliobaire (n.m.) – a clumsy person, a simpleton
cliùchdach (n.f.) – a deceitful female
cliùchdaire (n.m.) – a strategist, a cunning fellow; net-mender
clòcaire (n.m.) – rogue, a deceitful fellow, dissembler, pretender
clodaire (n.m.) – a pelter, a dull person
cnagaid (n.f.) – an old maid; an old cow with stumps of horns
cnoimheag (n.f.) – a maggot, a niggardly female
coilleanach (n.m.) – truant, poltroon
Conan (n.m.) – one of the Fian; a peevish person
corra-margaidh (coll.n.) – rabble, the off-scouring of the people
cràiceanach (n.m.) – a squat fellow
cràin (n.f.) – an ugly old woman; the queen of the hive; a sow
cràiteag (n.f.) – a niggardly woman
cranna-pheasan (n.m.) – a puny, delicate youngster
craoisean (n.m.) – a glutton
creabhall (n.m.) – a slouching, clumsy fellow
creachadair (n.m.) – despoiler, pillager, freebooter, depredator
crìnein (n.m.) – a miser
criomaire (n.m.) – a miser, churl
crìonntag (n.f.) – sorry or parsimonious female
crioplach (n.m.) – a decrepit person, a cripple
crochaire (n.m.) – a villain, a rogue
crògaire (n.m.) – a man having large hands, a bungler
crosan (n.m.) – a peevish man (In O. Irish, crosán = cross-bearer in religious processions; one who also practices the profession of singing satirical poems against persons under Church censure)
crotag (n.f.) – a crooked woman; a sixpence
cruchaill (n.f.) – a disorderly heap; a bulky, shapeless person
crùisleach (n.m.) – a recluse, a sluggard
cruitein (n.m.) – a diminutive humpbacked person
cuagaire (n.m.) – an awkward, clump-footed man
cùbaire (n.m.) – a shabby, mean fellow
cùiltear (n.m.) – smuggler, skulker
cuingire (n.m.) – a despot
cuireideach (n.f.) – a flirt, a coquette, a wily girl
cutag (n.f.) – a little dumpy girl; a short spoon, a gutting knife
dabhach (n.f.) – a huge lady; a mashing-vat; a measure of land
dais, dois (n.m.) – a blockhead, a fool
daoidhear (n.m.) – a wicked man, a fraud (of a man)
daolair (n.m.) – a lazy man, a niggard, a slow, creeping fellow
daormunn (n.m.) – miser, diminutive creature
déibhleid (n.f.) – an awkward or feeble person
déirceag (n.f.) – a penurious woman
déircire (n.m.) – a beggar, an almoner
diabhol (n.m.) – Satan, devil
diasanach (n.f.) – a lank and thriftless person
dì-millteach (n.m.) – a destroyer; a miserable person; an animal that breaks through fences
dìobarach (n.m.) – an outcast; a deserted person; an exile
dìobhlach (n.m.) – a prodigal
dìol-dèire (n.m.) – beggar, object of charity
dìosganach (n.m.) – a never-do-well, a boarded-out dipsomaniac
dìtheach (n.m.) – a beggar
doirbheag (n.f.) – a peevish woman, a stingy woman
dòiteachan (n.m.) – a miserable singed-looking person
domhach (n.m.) – a savage person
Dòmhnall-dubh (n.m.) – a euphemism for the Devil
dòraman (n.m.) – a hermit, morose man
dràb (n.f.) – a slattern, a slut
dràbag (n.f.) – a dirty woman
drabhc (n.m.) – an awkward fellow
dràic, dràichd (n.f.) – slattern
draghlainn (n.f.) – a slovenly person, a mess
draoth (n.m.) – a good-for-nothing person, a hum-drum
dreangan (n.m.) – a snarler
dreòlan (n.m.) – a silly person, a dwarf
droineap (n.f.) – a ragged person; anything ragged; a hump
drollaire (n.m.) – a lazy fellow, a sluggard
drongair (n.m.) – a drunkard
drùth (n.f.) – a harlot
duairc (n.f.) – a rude person; surliness, a vice
dubh-shiubhlach (n.f.) – a strolling female or gypsy
dùile (n.m.) – a poor creature, a little or diminutive person
duineachan (n.m.) – a manikin
eachdranach (n.m.) – a foreigner
ealbhar (n.m.) – a good-for-nothing fellow
earblach (n.m.) – a timid unheroic man
eireallach (n.m.) – a monster, a clumsy old carle
eiriceach (n.m.) – a heretic
éirisg (n.f.) – scheming, double-minded woman
eucorach (n.m.) – a wicked person; (a) unjust
eudaire (n.m.) – a jealous man
fachach (n.m.) – a puffin, a puny man, a manikin
fàgaire (n.m.) – a wag, a conceited wit, a witling
fàidseach (n.f.) – a lump of a girl
fallsaire (n.m.) – a sophist, false philosopher
fallsanach (n.m.) – a sophist
famhair (n.m.) – 1. a giant 2. a mole-catcher
farbhach (n.m.) – stranger, foreigner, clown
farbhalach (n.m.) – a stranger, a foreigner
fathach (n.m.) – a giant, monster, genius
feallan (n.m.) – a traitor, a felon
fealltair (n.m.) – a quack
fealltanach (n.m.) – a villain, a traitor
fear-cuideachd (n.m.) – a companion, a buffoon
fear-cùirn (n.m.) – an outlaw
fear-fuadain (n.m.) – a fugitive
fear-sàrachaidh (n.m.) – oppressor
fear-sodail (n.m.) – flatterer
fearan (n.m.) – a little man
féicheannach (n.m.) – a debtor
feuchadair (n.m.) – a tester, competitor, rival; witch, wizard
feumach (n.m.) – a needy person
feumannach (n.m.) – the needy, the poor, the destitute, beggar; overseer
fìgearach (n.m.) – a fiend
fineag (n.f.) – a cheese-mite, a miser
fìonghalach (n.m.) – one who murders a relative; (a.) fratricidal
fionnsgeulaiche (n.m.) – a romancer
fiosaiche (n.m.) – "man of knowledge"; soothsayer, wizard
firein (n.m.) – a manikin
fleogan (n.m.) – a flabby person, a flat fish
fògarrach (n.m.) – an exile, a vagabond, an outlaw, a fugitive
foghmharach (n.m.) – a pirate, a sea-robber
fògrach (n.m.) – an exile, fugitive
foicheallan (n.m.) – a lout, a useless fellow
fóigheach (n.m.) – a beggar
foilleir (n.m.) – a cheat, a rogue
fuadhaiche (n.m.) – a bogle, a scarecrow
fuar-chràbhadair (n.m.) – a hypocrite; a pietist
fuathach (n.m.) – a specter, a monster
fuidir (n.m.) – 1. fugitive or migratory husbandman, a stranger tenant; 2. fool, lout, clown
fùidse, fùididh (n.m.) – craven; poltroon; one who flees, a cock that will not fight.
fùsban (n.m.) – a bungler
gabach (n.f.) – a tattling female; (a.) garrulous
gabag (n.f.) – a garrulous woman
gabaire (n.m.) – a garrulous fellow
gadluinne (n.m.) – a slender feeble fellow; salmon after spawning
gaduiche (n.m.) – a thief, robber
gagach (n.f.) – a stuttering or stammering female; (a.) stammering
gailleart (n.f.) – masculine woman
gainneanach (n.m.) – a scrub, a miser
gamhainn (n.m.) – stirk, year-old calf; a stupid fellow
gaoirean (n.m.) – a noisy fellow
gaoistean (n.m.) – a crafty fellow
gaoithean (n.m.) – a fop, an empty-headed fellow, a wind-bag
gaorran (n.m.) – big-belly, a glutton
gaorsach (n.f.) – a most abandoned strumpet, a bawd, a slut
gaothran (n.m.) – a giddy fellow
garrach (n.m.) – a gorbellied child, a most impertinent fellow, a wretch, a little glutton, a contemptible manikin
gasar (n.m.) – pert fellow
gealtaire (n.m.) – a coward
geamhd (n.m.) – a chunk, a thick-set person
gearraghobach (n.m.) – a wit, a banterer
geòbaire (n.m.) – a babbler
geòcach. geòcair (n.m.) – a glutton, gormandiser
gigean (n.m.) – a dwarf; said too of a naked child
gilmean (n.m.) – a fop, a flatterer, a sycophant
gioball (n.m.) – an odd person
gìogaire (n.m.) – a cringer, fawner
giolaman (n.m.) – a prattling fellow
giolcair (n.m.) – a flippant fellow
giùd, giùide (n.m.) – a wile, a cheat, a filthy person, deceit
giùigire (n.m.) – a cringer, a coward
giùirideach (n.m.) – cringing, drooping, miserable-looking person
glagaid (n.f.) – blustering female, noisy woman
glagaire (n.m.) – a babbler, a blusterer
glàimhein (n.m.) – a glutton
glàimseach (n.f.) – a gluttonous woman
glàimsear (n.m.) – a fellow that wishes to monopolise booty; a usurper
glaislig, glaisligeach (n.m.) – pale and emaciated person, a fairy
glaisrig (n.f.) – a female fairy, half-human, half-beast; a gorgon
glamasair (n.m.) – voracious eater, a glutton
glaomar (n.m.) – a foolish person
gleòdhaman (n.m.) – a silly man
gleogaire (n.m.) – stupid fellow, lazy fellow
gleòid (n.m.) – a sloven
gleòidseach (n.f.) – a stupid woman
gleòidsear (n.m.) – a stupid man
gleòisg (n.f.) – a slut
gleòsg, gleòsgaid (n.f.) – a silly blustering humdrum of a female
gleòsgairegleòid (n.m.) – a silly man
gleòthaisg (n.f.) – a dull or silly woman
gliogaire (n.m.) – a sluggish woman, a thin clumsy fellow
gliomach (n.m.) – a long-limbed fellow; (a.) slovenly, drabbish
glogag (n.f.) – dull or stupid woman
glogaid (n.f.) – a lubberly female
glogaire (n.m.) – a lubber, a stupid fellow
gloichd (n.f.) – a stupid blunder, a half-wit, an idiot
glutaire (n.m.) – a glutton
gnoigeag, gnùgag (n.f.) – a sulky female
gnùgaire (n.m.) – a surly fellow
gòbaire (n.m.) – trifling prater
gocan (n.m.) – a little attendant, a pert little person
gòdag (n.f.) – a coquette
gogaid (n.f.) – a light-headed girl, a coquette
goillire (n.m.) – blubber-cheeked fellow
goineideach (n.m.) – person hurt with the evil eye, or bewitched
gonag (n.f.) – a witch, a miserable woman, a spell, a shriek
gòracan (n.m.) – a young he-crow, or silly fellow
gòrag (n.f.) – silly female, young she-crow
gortag (n.f.) – a penurious or starving woman
gortan (n.m.) – a penurious or starving man
gragair (n.m.) – a glutton
greannan (n.m.) – a shriveled, ill-favored creature
grìd (n.f.) – a very keen, penurious female; quality or substance
griobon (n.m.) – a brat, a small impertinent boy
grìochaire (n.m.) – an invalid, a mean person
gròbag (n.f.) – a little female with broken teeth, niggardly woman
grodag (n.f.) – a depraved woman
grodair (n.m.) – a stinking fellow, or a putrid fish
grogaire (n.m.) – a bungler, awkward fellow
gròig (n.m.) – an awkward man
gruamag (n.f.) – a morose woman
grùgach (n.f.) – a surly female; (a.) having a gloomy or surly face
grùgaire (n.m.) – a morose man
guairne (n.f.) – an unshapely, unmannerly female
guanag (n.f.) – light-headed girl, a coquette
guga (n.m.) – a fat, silly fellow; a young solan goose
gugarlach (n.m.) – a lumpish fellow
guraiceach (n.m.) – a blockhead
gurraiceach (n.m.) – a big awkward fellow, a callow young bird, a dotterel
ifrinneach, ifrionnach (n.m.) – a fiend, demon
inneabhag (n.f.) – a young woman given to borrowing
ìoba (n.m.) – a very stout or lumpish person
ìochdaran (n.m.) – a subject, an underling, an inferior
iudmhail (n.m.) – a fugitive
làbanach (n.m.) – a slovenly fellow, a drudge, a day-laborer
lairceag (n.f.) – a short, fat woman
lamarag (n.m.) – an awkward or cowardly fellow
laoran (n.m.) – a person too fond of the fireside
lasdaire (n.m.) – a beau, a spark, a fop, a dandy, a young man
leacaid (n.f.) – an easy-osy woman; a slap on the cheek
leibid (n.m.) – a dwarfish fellow; a trifle, dirt, bad luck
léirist, leithrist (n.f.) – an awkward person, foolish person, slut
leiscioball (n.m.) – a minion, vassal; a creature
leisgear, leisgean (n.m.) – a sluggard
leth-amadan (n.m.) – half-fool (male)
leth-amaid (n.f.) – half-fool (female)
lethlinn (n.m.) – a halfling, a half-wit
liopaire (n.m.) – a person with thick lips
liùgach (n.f.) – an unhandy female, a drab
liùgaire (n.m.) – unhandy fellow; one with a lame hand; a sneak
liugaire (n.m.) – a soft, cowardly fellow
lobhar (n.m.) – a weakling, sickly person, a leper
lobrogan (n.m.) – a drenched, smeared fellow
lodragan (n.m.) – a clumsy old man, a plump boy
logais (n.f.) – a big clumsy man; a slipper, patched shoe, bauchle
loguid (n.f.) – a varlet, a ghost, a soft fellow, a rascal
loigear (n.m.) – an untidy person
loirceach (n.f.) – a woman whose feet can hardly keep her body from the mire; deformed legs
loireag (n.m.) – a little stout girl; a comely, hairy cow; a pancake
loireanach (n.m.) – bespattered dirty little fellow, a male child just about to begin walking
loman, lomanach (n.m.) – a miser, a person alone
lonach (n.f.) – a garrulous, voracious person
lonaire (n.m.) – a voracious man
losgann (n.m.) – a frog, a toad, a wretch (spoken in contempt)
luaimear (n.m.) – a prattler
luaireagan (n.m.) – one that loves the fire, a groveling person
lùbaire (n.m.) – a deceitful person
lùbairneach (n.m.) – a clumsy, ill-formed man
ludair (n.m.) – a slovenly person
ludar (n.m.) – a heavy, slovenly person
ludragan (n.m.) – a heavy, dull person
lùghadair (n.m.) – blasphemer
luidealach (n.m.) – a ragged person, or shaggy beast; lazy fellow, big, slovenly fellow
luidreach (n.f.) – a ragged, clumsy person; a ragged garment
luidse, luidseach (n.f.) – a clumsy, awkward, dull, stupid person
lùigean (n.m.) – a weak person
luimean (n.m.) – a miser; a barren place
luinnseach (n.m.) –very tall, slim, bowed-down fellow, a sluggard
luinnsear (n.m.) – a sluggard, a lounger
lùireach (n.f.) – untidy female; a coat of mail, a patched garment, clumsy old footwear
lùirist (n.m.) – a tall, slender, slovenly, pitiless good-for-nothing
lunaisd (n.f.) – a slut
lunndaire (n.m.) – a lounger, a lounge, an indolent fellow
mabach (n.f.) – a stuttering or stammering female
mac-leisg (n.m.) – a lazy fellow, laziness personified
maodalach (n.m.) – a clumsy, corpulent person
maoisgeag (n.f.) – a small creel, a scolding woman
maolag (n.f.) – a bald woman, a hornless cow
maolan (n.m.) – a bald man, a dull, stupid man
maol-ciaran (n.m.) – a forlorn person
maor-striopach (n.m.) – a pimp, pander
marag (n.f.) – pudding, thick person
marbhanach (n.m.) – person almost dead, one pretending to be dead; wool of sheep killed at Hallow-tide
marbhdhraoi (n.m.) – necromancer
martair (n.m.) – a martyr, a cripple
mealltair (n.m.) – impostor, deceiver, a cheat; fraudulent person
mearcaid (n.f.) – a rash, headstrong person
meathachan (n.m.) – a decaying or fading man
meirgeal (n.m.) – a cadaverous person
mèirleach (n.m.) – a thief
meuradan (n.m.) – a delicate, slender, weak person
mì-chreideach (n.m.) – unbeliever, infidel, heretic; (a.) distrustful
mìleag (n.f.) – a mean woman
milltear (n.m.) – a destroyer, spendthrift; a prodigal person
misgear (n.m.) – drunkard
mith (n.m.) – one of the lower class, as opposed to the nobility
mogach (n.m.) – a raw youth, a shaggy fellow
moisean, muisean (n.m.) – sordid fellow, a mean rascal; the devil
monar (n.m.) – contemptible person or object; refuse
mortair (n.m.) – murderer, killer, assassin
mosag (n.f.) – a dirty female; a parsimonious, niggardly female
mùigean, mùigire (n.m.) – a surly dog of a fellow, frowner
mùirnean (n.m.) – a polite or pompous man; a darling
muir-spuinneadair (n.m.) – a pirate, sea-robber, plunderer
muisean (n.m.) – a mean, sordid fellow
munar (n.m.) – a trifling person, a diminutive person or thing
mùrla (n.f.) – a female having an ugly head of hair
nàmhaid (n.m.) – enemy, fool, adversary
naomh-thréigire (n.m.) – apostate
naosgair (n.m.) – an inconstant man
neoni (n.m.) – a ninny, a nothing, a non-entity
nothaist (n.m.) – an idiot, a foolish person
òinid (n.m.) – a fool
òinnseach (n.f.) – idiot, foolish woman
òlach (n.m.) – an hospitable man, now often used sarcastically
olc (n.m.) – [genitive: uilc] evil person, the evil one, wickedness
othaisg (n.f.) – a yearling ewe; a soft lubberly person, blockhead
pacaid (n.f.) – a female tell-tale or tattler; a packet
paindealach, peinntealach (n.m.) – a person laced up like a dandy; an article of dress too straight
peacach (n.m.) – sinner; (a.) sinful
peallaid (n.f.) – a paltry female, a sheepskin
peasan (n.m.) – impertinent person, a mean fellow, a varlet
peata (n.m.) – a spoiled child; a pet
peirceallach (n.m.) – a person that is lean, lank, & lantern-jawed; (a.) lantern-jawed
peislear (n.m.) – a trifling person
pianadair (n.m.) – tormentor
piantaiche (n.m.) – overwrought person, one ill-used or distressed
pìcear (n.m.) – a niggard, a churl
pigean (n.m.) – a little gorbellied person; a gorbelly
piuthrag (n.f.) – female fellow gossip
plaosgaid (n.m.) – soft, stupid woman
plaosgaire (n.m.) – soft, stupid fellow
pleodag (n.m.) – soft, simple female
pleòdhaisg, pleoisg (n.m.) – a booby, a simpleton
pliadhach (n.f.) – a splay-footed female; (a.) splay-footed and bandy-legged
pliadhair (n.m.) – splay-footed and bandy-legged man
pliutaire (n.m.) – half-splay-footed fellow
plocag (n.f.) – a thick woman
plodh (n.m.) – a sick person that dies on getting the slightest cold or injury; a man or any thing hardly hanging together
plodhaisg, plodhaman (n.m.) – bumpkin, booby, a hum-drum
plubach (n.f.) – a soft, lubberly female; (a.) soft and clumsy
plubaire (n.m.) – lubber, blubberer
pluidseach (n.f.) – lumpish female
pocan, poicean (n.m.) – a little squat fellow; a little bag
poinneach (n.m.) – a lump, a brat
pòitear (n.m.) – a tippler, drinker
prabach (n.f.) – contemptible female; (a.) rheum-eyed, contemptible, ragged, disheveled
prabaire (n.m.) – contemptible man
pràbar (n.m.) – rabble; little people; refuse of grain
praiseach (n.f.) – a whore or concubine
preachaire (n.m.) – a croaking speaker, a miserable orator
preig (n.f.) – a mouth that has too much to say
preigeadair (n.m.) – a gabby person, a gossip, a tale-bearer
priobair (n.m.) – a worthless fellow, a rascal, thief
pròis (n.f.) – punctilious little female, a prude; pride, haughtiness
pròiseag (n.f.) – a prude
pùiceach (n.f.) – a female that bribes; (a.) giving bribes, bribing
pùicear (n.m.) – a briber
ràbaire (n.m.) – quarrelsome fellow
rabhdaire (n.m.) – rhapsodist; a clown
racaid (n.f.) – a drawling female; bustle, noise
ràcaire (n.m.) – "croaker"; a drawling, croaking orator or piper
radan, rodan (n.m.) – a cunning person; a rat
ragaire (n.m.) – extortionist, a rogue
ràidse (n.m.) – a prating fellow
ràidseach (n.f.) – a chief witch
raipleachag (n.f.) – a squalid little woman
ramachdair (n.m.) – a vulgar fellow
ramair (n.m.) – a vulgar, coarse fellow; a romp
ramalair (n.m.) – a coarse, vulgar humorist
raod (n.m.) – diminutive creature, weakling, an emaciated person
raoit (n.f.) – a rakish female; drunkenness, indecent mirth
raoitear (n.m.) – drunkard
rapaire (n.m.) – a worthless fellow, a rhapsodist
rasaiche (n.f.) – a gypsy, hussy; a lewd woman
reabhach (n.m.) – a trickster, a wicked fellow, a rover
reangair (n.m.) – a loiterer
riabhach (n.m.) – grizzled one; "an riabhach" = "the evil one"
riataiche (n.m.) – an illegitimate child
robag (n.f.) – a slut, a drab
robair (n.m.) – robber [from the English]
rògaire (n.m.) – a rogue
roisg (n.f.) – diminutive, dwarfish person
ronnair (n.m.) – a slavering man
ropag (n.f.) – a slut, a slovenly woman
ròtair (n.m.) – a sloven, a lazy fellow
ruille (n.f.) – poor, wretched female
rugaire (n.m.) – drunkard
ruidhtear (n.m.) – a glutton, a riotous liver
ruinnseach (n.f.) – a tall, vulgar woman
ruit (n.f.) – a rakish female
ruitear (n.m.) – a rake, an abandoned man
sabhdaire (n.m.) – a stroller, liar, fabulist
saidsear (n.m.) – a heavy, clumsy man
saigean (n.m.) – a squat fellow, a corpulent little man
saigeanach (n.m.) – a fat, thick-set little man
samh (n.m.) – a clownish person, a "pig" of a man; a savage
samhanach (n.m.) – a savage
sanntaire (n.m.) – covetous man
saobh-chreidmheach (n.m.) – a heretic
seabhaltrach (n.m.) – a straggler
seamlach (n.f.) – a dupe, silly person; a cow that allows another cow's calf to suckle her
sèapaire (n.m.) – a sly, sneaking fellow; a poltroon, deserter
seasgaire (n.m.) – a coddled fellow or lazy person
seirgean, seirgleach (n.m.) – a withered person
seocair (n.f.) – portly fellow
seochlan (n.m.) – a feeble, staggering person
seotaire (n.m.) – a lazy fellow
sgafaire (n.m.) – scolding man
sgafart (n.f.) – a scolding female
sgagaire (n.m.) – a strainer, a polrtoon, a great coward; one that chinks at the slightest appearance of danger
sgaipean (n.m.) – a ninny, a dwarf
sgàirdean (n.m.) – a trifling fellow
sgaireach (n.m.) – a prodigal
sgaog (n.f.) – foolish, giddy female
sgaomaire (n.m.) – coward
sgeamhaire (n.m.) – a satirist
sgeamhaltrach (n.m. & f.) – a person that does anything furiously
sgeigeir (n.m.) – a scoffer
sgeigire (n.m.) – derider, a wag
sgeilmeach (n.f.) – a prating, vain, silly person; (a.) prating
sgeilmire (n.m.) – a prater, a boaster
sgeogaire (n.m.) – silly fellow
sgeòpaire (n.m.) – a tattler, long-tongued fellow
sgidean (n.m.) – little contemptible man
sgimilear (n.m.) – a vagrant parasite, intruder
sgiomalair (n.m.) – mean person that steals from pots, an intruder
sgiùnach (n.f.) – a shameless, bold woman; a charm or enchantment to enable its possessor to get all the fish around a boat or headland, amulet to excel at anything
sgiùrsair (n.f.) – a whoremonger; a whip
sglaimire, sglamaire (n.m.) – a usurper; one who is wise to appropriate booty or any such to himself
sglaimsear (n.m.) – usurper
sglamhaire (n.m.) – glutton; terrible scolder, a voracious fellow
sgleamacair (n.m.) – dauber; a mean, low, worthless fellow
sgleamaid (n.f.) – horrid snotters
sgleamhraidh (n.m.) – a stupid or mean fellow
sglèapaire (n.m.) – a boorish fellow
sgleàpaid (n.f.) – a silly boorish woman; foolish, boorish starers (applied to children)
sgléibire (n.m.) – one who lives by begging, a beggar
sgleogaire (n.m.) – a troublesome prattler, a liar
sgleòid (n.m.) – a silly person, a slattern
sglìmeach (n.m.) – troublesome, uninvited guest
sglimsear (n.m.) – a parasite
sgliùrach (n.f.) – an untidy female, slattern; newly-fledged crow
sglòid (n.f.) – a heavy, clumsy, lifeless female; filth, dirt
sglong (n.f.) – a horrid snotter
sgog (n.m.) – a fool, an idler
sgoilmeach (n.f.) – a shrew, a scold, a scolding female; (a.) venomous in scolding
sgoilmeis (n.f.) – a biting scold
sgoinneil (n.f.) – a bitter, scolding female
sgoitiche (n.m.) – a quack, a mountebank
sgonnabhalach (n.m.) – a lump of a boy, a lumpish boor
sgonnaire (n.m.) – a gulper, a boor
sgonsair (n.m.) – an avaricious rascal
sgraideag (n.f.) – diminutive woman; a little potato, a small thing
sgraingire (n.m.) – a scowler
sgràist (n.m.) – a sluggard, an indolent person
sgreabaire (n.m.) – mean fellow
sgreadaire (n.m.) – a screecher
sgreagag (n.f.) – a stingy woman
sgreuchaire, sgriachaire (n.m.) – screecher
sgriosadair (n.m.) – destroyer, pillager
sgriot (n.f.) – a haggard woman
sgriotachan (n.m.) – a pining child; little squalling infant
sgrogag (n.f.) – shriveled old woman, old cow or ewe, anything shriveled and short
sgrubaire (n.m.) – a churl, niggard
sgruit (n.f.) – an old decayed person; a thin person
sguainseach (n.f.) – a hussy, a boisterous girl
sguidilear (n.m.) – a scullion, a drudge, a mean fellow
sgùgach (n.m.) – a soft boorish fellow
sgùillear (n.m.) – a rakish person
sguit (n.m.) – a wanderer
sgumrag (n.f.) – a cinder wench, a "Cinderella"; a fire shovel
siabaire (n.m.) – a sprite; an evil fellow
siachaire (n.m.) – a pitiless wretch, a crafty creature
siadaidh (n.m.) – a sluggard
siadaire (n.m.) – a sly, skulking fellow; a skulker, a stinkard
sìdhideach (n.f.) – specter, fairy; person taken by fairies
sìgean (n.f.) – diminutive creature, a silly person
sìliche (n.m.) – a mean or meager, pitiless creature; a lazy fellow
simleag (n.f.) – a silly woman, simple-minded woman
sìochaire (n.m.) – fairy-like person; trifling ninny, dwarf, a sneak
siogaid (n.m.) – a starveling, lank person
sìogaire (n.m.) – sneak; wily, mean fellow
siolcaire (n.m.) – a light-fingered fellow, one that skips off
sìomlag (n.m.) – great coward
slabhcar (n.m.) – a slouching fellow, a taunter
slaightire (n.m.) – rogue, villain, knave
slaodag (n.f.) – a slut, slovenly woman
slaodaire (n.m.) – a lazy fellow, a lout, a slovenly man, a sluggard
slaodanach (n.m.) – heavy fellow
slataire (n.m.) – debauchee, amorist
sleamacair (n.m.) – sly person
sleugaire (n.m.) – sly, drawling, sneaking fellow
sligheadair (n.m.) – one who lives by fraud
slinnseag (n.f.) – silly, tawdry woman
sliobair (n.m.) – clumsy, awkward fellow
slìogaire (n.f.) – stroker, cajoler
slìomachdair (n.m.) – a mean parasite, a sponge
slìomair (n.m.) – a mean, low, flattering, fawning fellow
slìopaire (n.m.) – a sulky, surly, blubber-lipped fellow
slugaire (n.m.) – a glutton
smearadair (n.m.) – a smearer
sméilean (n.m.) – a puny, pale creature
snàgaire (n.m.) – creeping, sly, or sneaking fellow
socach (n.f.) – pert, snooty female; certain extent of arable land
sod (n.m.) – a clumsy, awkward person, a stout person
sodalach (n.m.) – a flatterer
spadaire (n.m.) – a killer, a dull person
spadaire (n.m.) – a fop, a dandy, a braggart
spàgach (n.f.) – splay-footed person
spàgaire (n.m.) – a splay-footed man
spailp (n.f.) – a foppish young man; pride, airs of importance
spailpean, spailpire (n.m.) – a fop, a conceited fellow
speuradair (n.m.) – a blasphemer
spiligean (n.m.) – a dwarfish person; a single grain, a seedling
spìocaire (n.m.) – a mean fellow
spìontachan (n.m.) – a person like a plucked fowl
spiuthair (n.m.) – a robber
splèachdag (n.f.) – a squint-eyed woman
splèachdair (n.m.) – a gazer, a squinter
splèadhadair (n.m.) – teller of tall tales
spleucaid (n.f.) – a foolish starer
spleucair (n.m.) – a foolish gazer
spliugaid (n.f.) – a blubbering female
spliugaire (n.m.) – a blubberer, snotty, slovenly fellow
spollachdaire (n.m.) – a blockhead, stupid person
spongaire (n.m.) – churl, niggard
spriolag (n.f.) – an evil genius, a practical joker, a baffler
spùinneadair (n.m.) – plunderer, spoiler, robber
spùllach (n.f.) – a very greedy, monopolizing female; (a) greedy
spùllaire (n.m.) – a greedy man
staga (n.f.) – squat, stout woman (applied in contempt)
staingean (n.m.) – an obstinate boorish person
stallacaire (n.m.) – a blockhead
steòcair (n.m.) – stalker; an idler
stiallaire (n.m.) – long, ugly fellow; a large thing; drawling noise
stic (n.m.) – a bad pet of a person, blackguard
stìc (n.m.) – a ghostly person; imp
sticeartach (n.m.) – a long person; a kind of apparition that stalks beside houses
stìg (n.m.) – a sneaking fellow, a skulking or abject look
stiocaire (n.m.) – a cripple, a feeble man
stiorlach (n.f.) – a sorry long female
stìorlag (n.f.) – an emaciated woman; a thin worn-out rag
stìorlan (n.m.) – a thin, tall person; any ugly long thing
stiup (n.m.) – a foolish person; a long tail or train
stodaire (n.m.) – a pettish fellow
strabaid (n.f.) – a whore, a harlot
strabaire (n.m.) – a whoremonger
stràcair (n.m.) – troublesome fellow, gossip, wanderer
strangair (n.m.) – a lazy, quarrelsome fellow
striamalach (n.f.) – long ugly person; anything long and ugly
strìopach (n.f.) – a whore
strìopaire (n.m.) – a whoremonger
strumpaid (n.f.) – a strumpet
stuacaire (n.m.) – a blockhead
stùcaire (n.m.) – a surly man
stùiceag (n.f.) – a surly woman
stuig (n.m.) – a bad pet or person
sùibhealtan (n.m.) – a parasite, a "sucker"
tàcharan (n.m.) – a sprite, a ghost, a trifling person, orphan; the yelling of ghosts
taibhsear (n.m.) – a visionary, a silly person; one gifted with second sight
tàigeanach (n.m.) – a squat person
tailceanach (n.m.) – a stout man
taisdealach (n.m.) – a traveler, a vagabond; ghost, a contemptible person; one that scuds or vanishes by
tàmailtear (n.m.) – taunter
tamharach (n.m.) – a dolt
tamhasg (n.m.) – a specter, an apparition, a ghost; a blockhead
taodhaire (n.m.) – an apostate
taosgaid (n.f.) – fickle female
taosgaire (n.m.) – fickle man; one who pumps
tàrlaid (n.m.) – contemptible person, a slave, a thrall
teallachag (n.f.) – a concubine
teallaid (n.f.) – a lusty or bunchy woman
teilleach (n.m.) – a blub-cheeked fellow
tiachaire (n.m.) – a perverse person, a dwarf, ill-disposed person
tiolpadair (n.m.) – a thief, pilferer; a critic
tirmean (n.m.) – a pert fellow, a would-be wag
tòicear (n.m.) – purse-proud man, a man who revels in his wealth
toirp (n.f.) – thick person; a sod, a divot
tollaire (n.f.) – one that edges his way; a genteel intruder
tònag (n.f.) – squat female; a clew of yarn
tònaire (n.m.) – a broad-bottomed man
tosgaire (n.m.) – one that cuts irregularly, or botches in cutting
traidhtear (n.m.) – traitor [from the English]
tràill (n.m.) – a slave, a drudge
triucair (n.m.) – a rascal
troich (n.m.) – a dwarf, ninny
troichilean (n.m.) – a dwarf, a pigmy
trosd (n.m.) – a dwarf
trù (n.m., gen. & pl.) a wretch
trudair (n.m.) – filthy person, beastly fellow, brutish man
trùileach (n.f.) – a worthless person, dirty person
trùille (n.m.) – worthless, dirty person
trusdar (n.m.) – a debauchee; filthy fellow
tuaireapach (n.m.) – miserable creature
tuaisd (n.m.) – an awkward person, dolt
tuaisdear (n.m.) – dolt, awkward fellow
tuataidh (n.m.) – mean and contemptible man; a boor
tudaidh (n.m.) – a ninny, a manikin
tunnag (n.f.) – a hobbling woman, a duck
turraid (n.f.) – a shapeless woman, a "heap" of a woman
turraisg (n.f.) – a witless female
turrallach (n.m.) – a big clumsy person
uailleag (n.f.) – a conceited female
uaillire (n.m.) – a fop, spark
uaineachan (n.m.) – a wan, pallid, miserable-looking person
uaipear (n.m.) – bungler, botcher
uallach (n.m.) – spirited fellow, a fop
uallachag (n.f.) – a coquette
uamh (n.m.) – a chief of savages, terrible fellow
uamhair, uamhghair (n.m.) – cave-man, a giant, a robber
uamhlach (n.m.) – "cave-dweller", a monster
uathbheist (n.f.) – monster
ùdail (n.m.) – a churl; (a.) gloomy, inhospitable, churlish
ùigean (n.m.) – a wanderer, a fugitive
uilleagan (n.m.) – a petted, spoiled boy
ùmaidh (n.m.) – a dolt, a blockhead, a fool; a brutish person
umarlaid (n.f.) – a vulgar, bulky female
ùmbaidh (n.m.) – a blockhead, dolt
ùmpaidh (n.m.) – a boor, a clown, idiot
uraisg (n.f.) – a brownie, a monster
ùranach (n.m.) – an upstart
urraisg (n.m.) – a monster, a savage, a witless blunderer; "Nach bu tu an t-urra isg!" = "What a monster you are!"
uspair (n.m.) – a lumpish fellow