plucaireacht

Irish

Etymology

From plucaire (“cheeky person”, from pluc (“cheek”)) +‎ -acht. Compare Scottish Gaelic plucaireachd.

Noun

plucaireacht f (genitive singular plucaireachta)

1. impertinence, cheek

Declension

Declension of plucaireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative plucaireacht vocative a phlucaireacht genitive plucaireachta dative plucaireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an phlucaireacht genitive na plucaireachta dative leis an bplucaireacht don phlucaireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of plucaireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
plucaireacht	phlucaireacht	bplucaireacht

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

Further reading

• “plucaireacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “plucaireaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 547
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “plucaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN