kelpie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
Definition of kelpie
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
“He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.”
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noun
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A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
“He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.”
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An Australian breed of sheepdog.
“There was no sound but the endless noise of forest and river, and the sleep-whimper of his kelpie.”
“Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Possibly from Scottish Gaelic cailpeach or colpach, meaning "colt". The dog breed derives from the name shared by the first two breeding bitches (dam and pup), which in turn derives from the mythological spirit.
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