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sheila Now Austral. and N.Z. colloq.|ˈʃiːlə|
Also 9 shaler; sheelah, etc.
[Orig. uncertain. Early shaler is not formally explained. It may represent a generic use of the (originally Irish) personal name Sheila, the counterpart of paddy n.2 1 a (see quot. 1828); in any case, it became assimilated to this at some later stage.]
A girl or young woman; a girl-friend. (Playfully affectionate and predominantly in male use.)
[1828Monitor (Sydney) 22 Mar. 1053/2 Many a piteous Shela stood wiping the gory locks of her Paddy, until released from that duty by the officious interference of the knight of the baton.] 1839H. Brandon in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 165/1 Shalers, girls (country phrase). 1847G. W. M. Reynolds Myst. London III. xxv. 71/1 Cop that young shaler unto thee. 1864Hotten Slang Dict. 225 Shaler, a girl. Corrupt form of Gaelic, caille, a young woman. 1895C. Crowe Austral. Slang Dict. 72 Shaler, a girl. 1918N.Z.E.F. Chrons. 5 July 252/2, I goes and stays out at Ngaire with my shieler's people. 1919W. H. Downing Digger Dialects 44 Sheila, a girl. 1928A. Wright Good Recovery 117 Leave the sheilas alone, they're sure to pool a man sooner or later. 1930V. Palmer Men are Human xxvii. 251 There was a sheelah he had working for him once, a lively piece with black eyes. 1940F. Sargeson Man & his Wife (1944) 66 I've got a job in a grocer's shop and I'm trotting a sheila. She's a pearl of a sheila too. 1951F. Hardy Power without Glory (ed. 5) i. 21 ‘What d'yer expect us to do, just sit around and starve ourselves?’.. ‘Please yer bloody self, but you've got to think of yer mother, and that sheila of yours.’ 1959Woman's Own 4 July 11/3 They have a daughter—a nice-looking sheila, too. 1962Coast to Coast 1961–62 21 ‘I know a sheila,’ Sonny began. ‘A real trimmer.’ 1969Private Eye 21 Nov. 14 Don't be shit-scared of these sheilahs who work for me. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Apr. 418/3 His past would be remythologized by a host of pre-war radio announcers, sepia footballers and nude sheilahs from the master brush of Norman Lindsay. 1977D. Seaman Committee 63 They made the usual jokes about the local Sheilas. |