sheakeare

Yola

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish seangaire (“thin person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛˈkiː/

Noun

sheakeare

1. A thin, puny lad, a stunted youth.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 67