Etymology

shillig-a-booka

Today it means: snail (in its shell) Full definition →

Irish seilide
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromseilide“snail”
  2. English todayshillig-a-booka

From Irish seilide (“snail”) búrc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.