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Hamish

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈheɪmɪʃ//

A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of mostly Scottish usage.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of mostly Scottish usage.

Etymology

Anglicized spelling of Scottish Gaelic Sheumais, vocative case of Seumas, from English James (see for more). Doublet of James etc.

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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).