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

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
plucaireacht	phlucaireacht	bplucaireacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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