bruachaireacht

Irish

Etymology

From bruachaire (“lounger; impudent person”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

bruachaireacht f (genitive singular bruachaireachta)

1. (act of) lounging, hanging about
2. (especially politics) brinkmanship

Declension

Declension of bruachaireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bruachaireacht vocative a bhruachaireacht genitive bruachaireachta dative bruachaireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bhruachaireacht genitive na bruachaireachta dative leis an mbruachaireacht don bhruachaireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of bruachaireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bruachaireacht	bhruachaireacht	mbruachaireacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bruachaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bruachaireacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024