shaughraun

English

Etymology

From Irish seachrán.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑːxɹɑː/, /ˈʃɑːxɹɑːn/

Noun

shaughraun (plural shaughrauns)

(Ireland, Canada) A wanderer; a vagabond.
(Ireland, Canada) A state of travelling or wandering.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  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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