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单词 shagroon
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shagroonn.

Brit. /ʃəˈɡruːn/, U.S. /ʃəˈɡrun/, New Zealand English /ʃəˈɡruːn/
Etymology: Perhaps < Irish seachrán wandering.
New Zealand slang (now Historical).
An early settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, from anywhere except Britain, esp. one from Australia.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers
pilgrim1630
originals1703
old settler1744
Big Knife1750
out-settler1755
provincial1756
Boer1776
freeman1791
Pilgrim Fathers1799
back-settler1809
undertaker1819
oecist1846
Argonaut1848
Canterbury pilgrim1850
poblador1850
shagroon1851
forty-niner1853
planter1858
inside squatter1881
local white1888
Minyan1928
1851 W. Lyon (title) Dream of a shagroon.
1851 E. Ward Jrnl. 20 Feb. (1951) 132 Started with Henry and a ‘shagroon’ cattle-driver.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 410/2 The men who came from England were called Pilgrims, all others Shagroons; probably a modification of the Irish word Shaughraun.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. i. 3 The Australians were known as ‘Prophets’ or ‘Shagroons’.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. i. 16 In Canterbury, immigrants from Victoria, locally called shagroons, set up sheep stations on the plains and were contemptuous of the agricultural enterprises of the pilgrims as the Canterbury Association's settlers were called.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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