shellycoat

English

Etymology

From shelly +‎ coat.

Noun

shellycoat (plural shellycoats) (Scotland, folklore)

  1. A mythical water creature wearing a coat made of shells.
    • 2013, Donald Mackenzie, Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life‎[1], →ISBN:
      The fatigued and deluded travellers now relinquished the pursuit; and had no sooner done so, than they heard shellycoat applauding, in loud bursts of laughter, his successful roguery. The spirit was supposed particularly to haunt the old house of Gorinberry situated on the River Hermitage in Liddesdale.
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