shaughraun

English

Etymology

From Irish seachrán.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑːxɹɑː/, /ˈʃɑːxɹɑːn/

Noun

shaughraun (plural shaughrauns)

1. (Ireland, Canada) A wanderer; a vagabond.
2. (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.