shaughraunn.
/ˈʃɑːxrɑːn/, /ʃɑːxˈrɑːn/, U.S. /ˈʃɔɡrən/, /ˈʃɑɡrən/, Irish English /ˈʃɒːxrɒːn/, /ˈʃɑkrɒːn/, Canadian English /ˈʃɒɡrən/ Anglo-Irish and Newfoundland.
1. In phrases to go a shaughraun: to go wrong; on (also in) a (or the) shaughraun: in a vagrant or drifting state.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)] > turn out badly, go wrong
run awry1524
to go a shaughraun1830
snafu1943
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > travelling from place to place [phrase] > wandering > as a tramp
on (also upon) the road1642
on the pad1665
on (the) tramp1760
on the wallaby track1865
on (also in) a (or the) shaughraun1922
on the swag1941
1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry I. 3 His speculation was gone a shaughran, as he termed it.
1892 E. 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.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 134 We'll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmarking in the Clarence.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 300 Shaugraun A vagabond state,..‘He spent his youth in a shaugraun’.. [Newfoundland].
2. A vagabond.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1884 D. Boucicault (title) The Shaughraun.
1884 D. Boucicault Shaughraun 2 Conn (the Shaughraun, the Soul of every Fair, the Life of every Funeral, the First Fiddle at all weddings and patterns).
1955 L. 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.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 300 Shaugraun, A person in a vagabond state, a bum... ‘He was a shaugraun.’ [Newfoundland].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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