KELPIE meaning: Mythical water horse, Scottish folklore

We found 22 dictionaries that define the word kelpie:

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kelpie: Merriam-Webster
kelpie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
kelpie, kelpie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
kelpie: Collins English Dictionary
kelpie: Vocabulary.com
Kelpie, kelpie: Wordnik
kelpie: Wiktionary
kelpie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
kelpie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
kelpie: Infoplease Dictionary
Kelpie, kelpie: Dictionary.com
kelpie: Online Etymology Dictionary
Kelpie (dog), Kelpie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Kelpie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
kelpie: Rhymezone
Kelpie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
kelpie: FreeDictionary.org
kelpie: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
kelpie: Mnemonic Dictionary
kelpie: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Kelpie (dog), kelpie: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

kelpie: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kelpie)

▸ noun: (Celtic mythology) A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
▸ noun: An Australian breed of sheepdog.

Similar:

kelpy, water horse, shoopiltie, kilpe, kelpfish, pellack, pellock, kelp, kelpware, kilp, more...

Opposite:

saint, benevolent spirit.

Types:

water kelpie, land kelpie, kelpie of the woods, more...

Phrases:

Australian Kelpie, more...

Adjectives:

sea, little, australian, red, scottish, black

Colors:

emerald, seafoam, teal, aquamarine, turquoise, more...

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