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shagroon N.Z. slang (now Hist.).|ʃəˈgruːn|
[Perh. ad. Ir. seachrán wandering.]
An early settler in Canterbury, New Zealand, from anywhere except Britain, esp. one from Australia.
1851W. Lyon (title) Dream of a shagroon. 1851E. Ward Jrnl. 20 Feb. (1951) 132 Started with Henry and a ‘shagroon’ cattle-driver. 1898E. E. Morris Austral English 410/2 The men who came from England were called Pilgrims, all others Shagroons; probably a modification of the Irish word Shaughraun. 1930L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. i. 3 The Australians were known as ‘Prophets’ or ‘Shagroons’. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. i. 16 In Canterbury, immigrants from Victoria, locally called shagroons, set up sheep stations on the plains and were contemptuous of the agricultural enterprises of the pilgrims as the Canterbury Association's settlers were called. |