| 单词 | to go a shaughraun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go a shaughraun 1. In phrases to go a shaughraun: to go wrong; on (also in) a (or the) shaughraun: in a vagrant or drifting state. ΘΚΠ 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]. < as lemmas |
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