cacamas

See also: căca-m-aș

Irish

Etymology

From cac.

Noun

cacamas m (genitive singular cacamais)

1. dross, refuse
2. (metallurgy) scobs, scum
3. Vile, worthless thing.
4. (colloquial) bullshit, nonsense
5. vainglory

Declension

Declension of cacamas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative cacamas vocative a chacamais genitive cacamais dative cacamas forms with the definite article singular nominative an cacamas genitive an chacamais dative leis an gcacamas don chacamas

Mutation

Mutated forms of cacamas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cacamas	chacamas	gcacamas

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) “cacamas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN