shaughraun

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/ˈʃɑːxɹɑː//ˈʃɑːxɹɑːn/

noun

A wanderer; a vagabond.

OriginIrish seachrán →
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Meanings

nounshaughraun (plural shaughrauns)

plural shaughrauns

  1. CanadaIrelandA wanderer; a vagabond.
  2. CanadaIrelandA state of travelling or wandering.

    We’ll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmaking in the Clarence.

    1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 7: Aeolus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 130

Origin

  1. Irishseachrán
  2. Irishseachrán
  3. Englishshaughraun

Borrowed from Irish seachrán.

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APA

shaughraun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shaughraun

MLA

“shaughraun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shaughraun. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shaughraun,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shaughraun.

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