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单词 shawlie
释义

shawlien.

Brit. /ˈʃɔːli/, U.S. /ˈʃɔli/, /ˈʃɑli/, Irish English /ˈʃɒːli/
Forms: Also shawly.
Etymology: < shawl n. + -ie suffix.
colloquial (chiefly Irish English and northern).
A woman (usually poor or working-class) who wears a shawl over her head.
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flat cap1599
sash1657
black cap1856
white hat1872
shawlie1914
raghead1917
hijabi1986
1914 F. Niven Justice of Peace ii. iii. 258Shawlies’— as the girls who are to be seen in the neighbourhood of the Trongate of Glasgow, wearing shawls over their heads, are locally called.
1928 F. T. Jesse Many Latitudes 233 I will put a shawl over my head. I will go along the way I was one of them Shawlies from the quays.
1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 63 A lowly house dear to shawlies.
1947 P. Doncaster Sigh for Drum Beat ii. 12 He knew they were the footsteps of a woman. A shawly, with her shawl wound about her body and a baby snuggled into it.
1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 72 A working-class Liverpool woman usually elderly and of scruffy appearance. Once known as a shawlie from the local habit of wearing a shawl.
1980 J. Masters Heart of War v. 68 She had been transformed into a typical Dublin shawlie, only more ragged and dirtier than most.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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