shabaroon

plural shabaroons

1. rareAn unkempt, disreputable person.

   I'm being followed by tattooed ESL shabaroons!

   2007, Toren Atkinson, “Strange”, in The Shadow Out of Tim, performed by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

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   Well, this here wun, i cant never mind his name, for they calld him by too att wunce, seemed verry thik with my loddger, Mr Pennyfeather, an' hardly missd a day cummin to see him, to mi sorrow; for i do think 'twas he put sich wild vagarys into tother's head, an' pswaided him at last to run off in mi dett, like a shabbroon as he was.

   1823, “Letter from a Washerwoman”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 13, number 73, page 233

   The only persons who could be classed as shabaroons were the peddlers in the open market, the caravan drovers, and travelers newly arrived from the hinterlands; even these seemed only temporarily grubby.

   1982, Julian May, The Golden Torc