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▪ I. shammock, n. dial.|ˈʃæmək|
Also shammocks, shommacks, shammick(s (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
[? f. shammock v. Cf. dial. slammock(s, slammick(s of similar meaning.]
Used as a term of depreciation, with many varieties of meaning; a lazy, slovenly person; a starved, miserable-looking person or animal.
1828[Carr] Craven Gloss. II. 113 He's a sad shammocks. 1891‘Q.’ (Quiller-Couch) Noughts & Crosses 97 If These-an'-That, there, wasn' but a poor ha'f-baked shammick, he'd ha' killed that wife o' his afore this. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 213 So the poor old chief worried himself to a shammock.
▪ II. shammock, v. dial.|ˈʃæmək|
Forms: (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
[Cf. shamble v.; also slammock vb., widely used dial. in similar senses.]
intr. To walk with a shambling or unsteady gait; to slouch; to dawdle; to idle about.
1857Scholes Tim Gamwattle 6 (E.D.D.) As aw wur shammokin alung shore.
Hence ˈshammocking ppl. a., awkward, clumsy; slovenly, untidy; idle, worthless. ˈshammocky a. = prec.; also, shaky, infirm.
1702T. Brown, etc. Lett. Dead to Living ii. (1707) 73 Pox take you both for a couple of shammocking Rascals. 1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. 564 Shomacky, slovenly, awkward in gait. 1852Tait's Mag. XIX. 42 An idle, boozing, and shammocking scamp weds an industrious girl. 1891Doyle White Company xiv, You shammocking yaping over-long good-for-nought! 1900H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne xix. (1905) 241 But ye poor, shammocky sheep-drivers think there's nowt save ewes an' tups i' th' world. |