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▪ I. shool, v. dial. and slang.|ʃuːl|
Also 8–9 shule, 9 shoal.
[Of obscure origin; hardly identical with shool var. of shovel v. In Ireland it seems to have been associated with Irish siubhail to go, travel; shooler (see below) seems to correspond to Irish siubhlach vagrant.]
intr. To go about begging; to sponge, to acquire some advantage by insidious means; also to skulk.
1736J. Lewis Isle of Tenet (ed. 2) 38 Shooling, begging, to go a Shooling. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xli, When they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Shoole, to go skulking about. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxxiv, ‘Throth, you do me wrong’, said the beggar, ‘if you think I came shooling’. a1876M. & Fr. Collins Village Comedy (1878) I. xxii. 297 As we watch these daring damsels starting to ‘shool’, we cannot help wishing them some lively adventures. 1899‘Martello Tower’ At School & Sea 73 Hullo, Dil, at it again, shooling (that is, getting things) on the youngsters.
b. trans. To impose on (a person).
1745Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 158 One Day he met with an English Doctor, whom he shuled as a cast-away Seaman.
c. To carry as a pretence.
1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 125 Who takes delight To shool her knitting out at night.
Hence ˈshooler, one who ‘shools’.
1830Carleton Traits Irish Peas. (1843) I. 62 What tribes of beggars and shulers. 1856P. Thompson Hist. Boston 722 Shooler, one who intrudes upon his neighbour, and forces an invitation to dinner, &c.
▪ II. shool
obs. and dial. form of shovel.
▪ III. shool
var. shul. |