maccoul

Updated: July 22, 2025

To a stranger the names sound uncouth and meaningless, the fact being, that we all go by nicknames . 'Giblets, 'Diamond Digger, 'Mangelwurzel, 'Goggle-eyed Plover, 'Gossein' or holy man, 'Blind Bartimeus, 'Old Boots, 'Polly, 'Bottle-nosed Whale, 'Fin MacCoul, 'Daddy, 'The Exquisite, 'The Mosquito, 'Wee Bob, and 'Napoleon, are only a very few specimens of this strange nomenclature.

James Inglis - Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier: Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter

Unseen we were, we knew, but it was patent that the man above us would be round in front of us at any moment, and there we were to his plain eyesight! He was within three yards of a steel death, even had he been Fin MacCoul; but the bank he was standing on or lying on, as we learned again crumbled at the edge and threw him among us in a different fashion from that we had looked for.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn