| 释义 |
shawlie colloq. (chiefly Irish and northern).|ˈʃɔːlɪ|
Also shawly.
[f. shawl n. + -ie.]
A woman (usu. poor or working-class) who wears a shawl over her head.
1914F. Niven Justice of Peace ii. iii. 258 ‘Shawlies’— as the girls who are to be seen in the neighbourhood of the Trongate of Glasgow, wearing shawls over their heads, are locally called. 1928F. T. Jesse Many Latitudes 233, I will put a shawl over my head. I will go along the way I was one of them Shawlies from the quays. 1934S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 63 A lowly house dear to shawlies. 1947P. Doncaster Sigh for Drum Beat ii. 12 He knew they were the footsteps of a woman. A shawly, with her shawl wound about her body and a baby snuggled into it. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse II. 72 A working-class Liverpool woman usually elderly and of scruffy appearance. Once known as a shawlie from the local habit of wearing a shawl. 1980J. Masters Heart of War v. 68 She had been transformed into a typical Dublin shawlie, only more ragged and dirtier than most. |