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Pronunciation SHKETCH-ih-mee-nee
Pronounced SHKETCH-ih-mee-nee. The trembling excitement a child feels on Christmas Eve. The word doesn’t exist in English. It refers specifically to anticipation so physical that the body cannot stay still. A precise diagnosis.
Ó Dónaill · Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla · 1977