shederow

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English schiterow, from schite (“diarrhoea”) or schiten (“to defecate”) and an unknown second element (possibly Old English *hrāga, a dissimilatory form of hrāgra (“heron”)).

Noun

shederow

  1. A heron.
  2. A thin, weak person.

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 67
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