shabberoon n.
1. a shabby, down-at-heel person.
![]() | Art of Wheedling 160: This Town-shift is sometimes called [...] Ruffin, Shabbaroon, Subtler. | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Shabberoon, a Ragamuffin. | |
![]() | Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 184: That whore, my wife [...] that us’d to open her sluice and let in an inundation of shabroons to gratify her concupiscense. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Andrew Jackson 122: Let me see that you are jonnok, when these shabbaroons of England attack you. |
2. a mean-spirited person.
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |