shaughraun

English

Etymology

Irish seachrán

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɑːxɹɑː/, /'ʃɑ:xrɑ:n/

Noun

shaughraun (plural shaughrauns)

  1. (Anglo-Irish, Canada) A wanderer; a vagabond.
  2. (Anglo-Irish, Canada) A state of travelling or wandering.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
      We’ll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmaking in the Clarence.
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