kelpie Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
    kelpy.
  2. noun an Australian sheepdog with pointed ears

WordNet

Kel"pie, Kel"py noun (Also<
  • Kelpie
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Etymology
Cf. Gael. cailpeach, calpach, colpach, a heifer, steer, colt, colpa a cow or horse.
Wordforms
plural Kelpies
Definitions
  1. (Scotch Myth.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. Jamieson.

Webster 1913