单词 | shagroon |
释义 | shagroonn. New Zealand slang (now Historical). An early settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, from anywhere except Britain, esp. one from Australia. ΘΚΠ 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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