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shaughraun Anglo-Ir. and Newfoundland.|ˈʃɑːxrɑː, ʃɑːxˈrɑːn|
Also shaughran, (Newfoundland) shaugraun |-g-|.
[ad. Ir. seachrán a wandering, a straying, an error.]
a. In phrs. to go a shaughraun: to go wrong; on (or in) a (or the) shaughraun: in a vagrant or drifting state.
b. A vagabond.
1843W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry I. 5 His speculation was gone a shaughran, as he termed it. c1874D. Boucicault in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 165 (title) The Shaughraun. Ibid., Conn, the shaughraun, the soul of every fair, the life of every funeral, the first fiddle at all weddings and patterns. 1892E. Lawless Grania I. ii. ii. 153 'Tis eight days in the week she'll find herself working..yes, and going a shaughraun most like at the tail of it all. 1922Joyce Ulysses 134 We'll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmarking in the Clarence. 1955L. E. F. English Historic Newfoundland (St John's Newfoundland Tourist Devel. Div.) 36 Shaugraun, a vagabond state. 1961‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life v. 34 Well the dear knows I think you are trying to destroy my temper, Father, and put me out of my wits and make an unfortunate shaughraun out of me. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 300 Shaugraun,..(1) A vagabond state, (2) a person in a vagabond state, a bum. ‘He spent his youth in a shaugraun.’ ‘He was a shaugraun.’ [Newfoundland]. |