shamrockn.

Brit.

/ˈʃamrɒk/, U.S.

/ˈʃæmˌrɑk/, Irish English

/ˌʃænəð ˈeːrən/

Forms: α. 1500s shamrote, 1600s shamroot; β. 1500s shamrocke, shamroke, 1600s schamrock, shamrook, 1600s shamocke, 1700s shammock, shamroque, 1500s– shamrock; γ. 1600s shamrogh, shamrogth, shamerag, shamrug, shamrogue, ( chamroch), 1600s–1700s shamrog(e, 1700s shamrogge, ( shambrogue, shambrogh).

Etymology: < Irish seamróg (= Gaelic seamrag), diminutive of seamar clover.

a. A plant with trifoliate leaves, used (according to a late tradition) by St. Patrick to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity, and hence adopted as the national emblem of Ireland; a spray or leaf of this plant.The ‘shamrock’ of the legend has been conjecturally identified with many different plants, e.g. the white clover Trifolium repens, the red clover, T. pratense, the black medic, Medicago lupulina, the wood sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella, and the water-cress. The name is now most commonly applied to the lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium minus, which is the plant most frequently worn as an emblem on St. Patrick's Day.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil > shamrock

shamrockc1571

society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > national

ravenOE

thistle1488

red cross1523

St George's cross1548

Britannia1605

red rose1618

British Lion1687

shamrock1712

leek1714

American eagle1782

rising sun1787

white horse1814

Bird of Freedom1825

Union Jack1847

maple leaf1860

meatball1919

red star1920

hammer and sickle1921

chakra1947

α.

c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. vi. 23 Shamrotes, watercresses, rootes, and other hearbes they feede upon.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 147 They feed willingly upon..Mushromes Shamroots & rootes.

1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript i. viii. sig. G3^v And for my clothing in a mantle goe, And feed on Sham-roots, as the Irish doe.

β. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Water cresses, which they terme shamrocks, rootes and other herbes they feede vpon.1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1018 Medow Trefoile is called..in Irish Shamrockes.a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 72 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) If they found a plot of water-cresses or Shamrocks; there they flocked as to a feast for the time.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 163 They willingly eate the hearb Schamrock.1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. C1^v Their fare being many times shamrookes, oaten-bread, beanes and butter-milke.1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iii. i. 149 Worse then damnation, a wild Kerne,..Longed you for Shamocke?a1691 H. Piers Chorogr. Descr. W.-Meath in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis (1770) I. i. 121 Butter, new cheese, and curds and shamrocks, are the food of the meaner sort all this season.1775 R. B. Sheridan St. Patrick's Day i. i I put a great shammock in his hat this morning.1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. 28 He marked our young hero on the left breast with a shamroque.1813 T. Moore Oh the Shamrock! 16 Chosen leaf Of Bard and Chief, Old Erin's native Shamrock!1856 O. W. Holmes For Meeting Burns Club 52 We drink a triple health,—the Rose, The Shamrock, and the Thistle!1901 Daily Express 18 Mar. 5/7 Covent Garden sent King Edward a four-leaved shamrock on Saturday.γ. 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. i. 138/2 Feeding vpon water-cresses, rootes, mushromes, shamrogh, butter tempered with oate-meale.1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence in Wks. (1630) ii. 4/2 Whilst all the Hibernian Kernes in multitudes Did feast with Shamerags stew'd in Vsquebagh.1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia i. i. 4 (margin) Cresses..of which the Irish Shamrogth are a kinde.1643 J. Taylor Preter-plvperfect 4 Some Bookes also of Irish Rebellion were devoured as they had been Shamrogs [printed Shamroys].1681 Dineley in Jrnl. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. (1858) 1 183 The 17^nth day of March yeerly is S^t Patricks, an immoveable feast, when..the vulgar superstitiously wear shamroges, 3 leav'd grass.1699 E. Lhuyd Let. 15 Dec. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 506 Their Shamrug is the common Clover.1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 455. ⁋2 The Scotch Thistle, the Irish Shambrogue.1741 Gentleman's Mag. 11 438/1 Go little Shamrogge, and adorn My pretty Flavia's breast this morn.

b. to drown the shamrock: to drink, or go drinking, in honour of the shamrock, on St. Patrick's day.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely > on St. Patrick's day

to drown the shamrock1888

1726 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum at Trifolium This Plant is worn by the People..upon..St. Patrick's Day. It being a current Tradition, that by this Three Leafed Grass, he emblematically set forth to them the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. However that be, when they wet their Seamar-oge, they often commit Excess in Liquor, which is not a right keeping of a Day to the Lord.]

1888 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. (Farmer) An Irishman..on Saturday last resolved to drown the shamrock in the orthodox fashion.

1901 Daily Tel. 18 Mar. 10/6 The oportunities for ‘drowning the shamrock’ were commendably abbreviated by the law.

2. Applied with defining word to some other plants (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil > shamrock > plants resembling

shamrock1884

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 124/2 Shamrock, Blue-flowered. Parochetus communis... Shamrock, Indian. Trillium latifolium.

1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 143 Trigonella suavissima..is the ‘Australian shamrock’ of Mitchell.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Shamrock, Native, a forage plant, Lotus australis.

Compounds

attributive.

ΚΠ

1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande Ep. Ded. sig. aiv^v My soule dooeth detest their wilde shamrocke manners.

1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/6 The same shamrock-embroidered bonnet.

Derivatives

shamrock pea n. Parochetus communis (Miller, Plant-n. 1884).

† shamrockshire n. Obsolete a jocular name for Ireland.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun]

Western Isle1557

shamrockshire1689

Teagueland1689

Wolfland1692

Green Island1797

Green Isle1812

the (old) sod1812

Paddyland1828

(is)land of saints1888

1689 Irish Hudibras 80 Which..Makes Wit so scarce in Shamrogeshire.

1716 Hesperi-neso-graphia i. 4 Priests in Shamroghshire, they say, Can Women kiss as well as pray.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	shamrock
释义	shamrockn. Brit. /ˈʃamrɒk/, U.S. /ˈʃæmˌrɑk/, Irish English /ˌʃænəð ˈeːrən/ Forms: α. 1500s shamrote, 1600s shamroot; β. 1500s shamrocke, shamroke, 1600s schamrock, shamrook, 1600s shamocke, 1700s shammock, shamroque, 1500s– shamrock; γ. 1600s shamrogh, shamrogth, shamerag, shamrug, shamrogue, ( chamroch), 1600s–1700s shamrog(e, 1700s shamrogge, ( shambrogue, shambrogh). Etymology: < Irish seamróg (= Gaelic seamrag), diminutive of seamar clover. 1. a. A plant with trifoliate leaves, used (according to a late tradition) by St. Patrick to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity, and hence adopted as the national emblem of Ireland; a spray or leaf of this plant.The ‘shamrock’ of the legend has been conjecturally identified with many different plants, e.g. the white clover Trifolium repens, the red clover, T. pratense, the black medic, Medicago lupulina, the wood sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella, and the water-cress. The name is now most commonly applied to the lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium minus, which is the plant most frequently worn as an emblem on St. Patrick's Day. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil > shamrock shamrockc1571 society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > national ravenOE thistle1488 red cross1523 St George's cross1548 Britannia1605 red rose1618 British Lion1687 shamrock1712 leek1714 American eagle1782 rising sun1787 white horse1814 Bird of Freedom1825 Union Jack1847 maple leaf1860 meatball1919 red star1920 hammer and sickle1921 chakra1947 α. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. vi. 23 Shamrotes, watercresses, rootes, and other hearbes they feede upon. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. ii. 147 They feed willingly upon..Mushromes Shamroots & rootes. 1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript i. viii. sig. G3^v And for my clothing in a mantle goe, And feed on Sham-roots, as the Irish doe. β. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Water cresses, which they terme shamrocks, rootes and other herbes they feede vpon.1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1018 Medow Trefoile is called..in Irish Shamrockes.a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 72 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) If they found a plot of water-cresses or Shamrocks; there they flocked as to a feast for the time.1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 163 They willingly eate the hearb Schamrock.1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. C1^v Their fare being many times shamrookes, oaten-bread, beanes and butter-milke.1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore iii. i. 149 Worse then damnation, a wild Kerne,..Longed you for Shamocke?a1691 H. Piers Chorogr. Descr. W.-Meath in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis (1770) I. i. 121 Butter, new cheese, and curds and shamrocks, are the food of the meaner sort all this season.1775 R. B. Sheridan St. Patrick's Day i. i I put a great shammock in his hat this morning.1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. 28 He marked our young hero on the left breast with a shamroque.1813 T. Moore Oh the Shamrock! 16 Chosen leaf Of Bard and Chief, Old Erin's native Shamrock!1856 O. W. Holmes For Meeting Burns Club 52 We drink a triple health,—the Rose, The Shamrock, and the Thistle!1901 Daily Express 18 Mar. 5/7 Covent Garden sent King Edward a four-leaved shamrock on Saturday.γ. 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. iv. i. 138/2 Feeding vpon water-cresses, rootes, mushromes, shamrogh, butter tempered with oate-meale.1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence in Wks. (1630) ii. 4/2 Whilst all the Hibernian Kernes in multitudes Did feast with Shamerags stew'd in Vsquebagh.1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia i. i. 4 (margin) Cresses..of which the Irish Shamrogth are a kinde.1643 J. Taylor Preter-plvperfect 4 Some Bookes also of Irish Rebellion were devoured as they had been Shamrogs [printed Shamroys].1681 Dineley in Jrnl. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. (1858) 1 183 The 17^nth day of March yeerly is S^t Patricks, an immoveable feast, when..the vulgar superstitiously wear shamroges, 3 leav'd grass.1699 E. Lhuyd Let. 15 Dec. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1712) 27 506 Their Shamrug is the common Clover.1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 455. ⁋2 The Scotch Thistle, the Irish Shambrogue.1741 Gentleman's Mag. 11 438/1 Go little Shamrogge, and adorn My pretty Flavia's breast this morn. b. to drown the shamrock: to drink, or go drinking, in honour of the shamrock, on St. Patrick's day. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely > on St. Patrick's day to drown the shamrock1888 1726 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum at Trifolium This Plant is worn by the People..upon..St. Patrick's Day. It being a current Tradition, that by this Three Leafed Grass, he emblematically set forth to them the Mystery of the Holy Trinity. However that be, when they wet their Seamar-oge, they often commit Excess in Liquor, which is not a right keeping of a Day to the Lord.] 1888 Daily Tel. 22 Mar. (Farmer) An Irishman..on Saturday last resolved to drown the shamrock in the orthodox fashion. 1901 Daily Tel. 18 Mar. 10/6 The oportunities for ‘drowning the shamrock’ were commendably abbreviated by the law. 2. Applied with defining word to some other plants (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil > shamrock > plants resembling shamrock1884 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 124/2 Shamrock, Blue-flowered. Parochetus communis... Shamrock, Indian. Trillium latifolium. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 143 Trigonella suavissima..is the ‘Australian shamrock’ of Mitchell. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Shamrock, Native, a forage plant, Lotus australis. Compounds attributive. ΚΠ 1581 J. Derricke Image Irelande Ep. Ded. sig. aiv^v My soule dooeth detest their wilde shamrocke manners. 1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/6 The same shamrock-embroidered bonnet. Derivatives shamrock pea n. Parochetus communis (Miller, Plant-n. 1884). † shamrockshire n. Obsolete a jocular name for Ireland. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Ireland > [noun] Western Isle1557 shamrockshire1689 Teagueland1689 Wolfland1692 Green Island1797 Green Isle1812 the (old) sod1812 Paddyland1828 (is)land of saints1888 1689 Irish Hudibras 80 Which..Makes Wit so scarce in Shamrogeshire. 1716 Hesperi-neso-graphia i. 4 Priests in Shamroghshire, they say, Can Women kiss as well as pray. 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