shaughraun

shaughraun
noun /ˈʃɑːxrɑː/
a) (Anglo-Irish, Canadian) a wanderer, a vagabond

, 1922: We’ll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmaking in the Clarence. — James Joyce, Ulysses

b) (Anglo-Irish, Canadian) a state of travelling or wandering

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