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† shabaroon, shabroon slang. Obs.
Also 7 shabberoon, 9 shabbaroon.
[? f. shab n., after picaroon.]
A disreputable person, ragamuffin.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Shabberoon, a Ragamuffin. 1703E. Ward Lond. Spy xv. (1706) 366 Poor loose Shabroons in Bawdy-Houses Bred. 1762–7T. Bridges Hom. Trav. (1797) II. 11 That no more rogues to-day may drop, Go you and all your shabroons stop. 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) I. 21 Letting a tribe of shabroons and painted Jezebels into their honest house. 1838New Monthly Mag. LIV. 214 If..a recognition from a coroneted carriage stamps you a lord,..the notice of a shabaroon can be nothing less than a hint to your tailor to send in his bill. 1847Halliwell, Shabbaroon, a mean shabby fellow.
attrib.1786A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscr. V. 56 Trap answered, he believed he had nobody belonging to him worth seeking after, for that he was but a shabroon sort of a gem'man. |