shoolv.
/ʃuːl/ dialect and slang.
a. intransitive. To go about begging; to sponge, to acquire some advantage by insidious means; also to skulk.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > beg or be beggar [verb (intransitive)]
thigc1300
begc1384
crave1393
to go a-begged1393
prowl1530
to go (or have been) a begging1535
maund?1536
to bear the wallet1546
cant1567
prog1579
to turn to bag and wallet1582
skelder1602
maunder1611
strike1618
emendicate1623
mendicate1623
to go a-gooding1646
mump1685
shool1736
cadge1819
to stand pad1841
stag1860
bum1870
schnorr1875
panhandle1894
pling1915
stem1924
nickel-and-dime1942
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 38 Shooling, begging, to go a Shooling.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xli. 44 When they found my hold unstowed, they went all hands to shooling and begging.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Shoole, to go skulking about.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxxiv ‘Throth, you do me wrong’, said the beggar, ‘if you think I came shooling’.
a1876 M. Collins & F. Collins Village Comedy (1878) I. xxii. 297 As we watch these daring damsels starting to ‘shool’, we cannot help wishing them some lively adventures.
1899 ‘Martello Tower’ At School & at Sea 73 Hullo, Dil, at it again, shooling (that is, getting things) on the youngsters.
b. transitive. To impose on (a person).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > treat fraudulently, cheat [verb (transitive)]
deceivec1330
defraud1362
falsec1374
abuse?a1439
fraud1563
visure1570
cozen1583
coney-catch1592
to fetch in1592
cheat1597
sell1607
mountebanka1616
dabc1616
nigglea1625
to put it on1625
shuffle1627
cuckold1644
to put a cheat on1649
tonya1652
fourbe1654
imposturea1659
impose1662
slur1664
knap1665
to pass upon (also on)1673
snub1694
ferret1699
nab1706
shool1745
humbug1750
gag1777
gudgeon1787
kid1811
bronze1817
honeyfuggle1829
Yankee1837
middle1863
fuck1866
fake1867
skunk1867
dead-beat1888
gold-brick1893
slicker1897
screw1900
to play it1901
to do in1906
game1907
gaff1934
scalp1939
sucker1939
sheg1943
swizz1961
butt-fuck1979
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 158 One Day he met with an English Doctor, whom he shuled as a cast-away Seaman.
c. To carry as a pretence.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > pretend, simulate, feign [verb (transitive)] > carry as pretence
shool1820
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 125 Who takes delight To shool her knitting out at night.
Derivatives
ˈshooler n. one who ‘shools’.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar
beggara1250
bidder1362
mendinantc1395
mendivaunt1395
craver1406
thigger1424
gangrela1450
mendicant1474
mendiant1483
eremite1495
Lazarus?a1513
truandals1523
bellyterc1540
clapperdudgeon1567
beggar-man1608
maunder1609
maunderer1611
Abraham cove1612
eleemosynary1643
mumpera1652
jockey1685
progger1685
asker1708
thigster1710
prog1828
shooler1830
cadger1851
panhandler1893
Weary Willie1896
schlepper1901
plinger1904
peg-legger1915
tapper1930
clochard1940
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with spade or shovel
shovellerc1440
shovel-man1559
spademan1559
spader1647
shooler1830
shovel1834
1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry I. 115 What tribes of beggars, and shulers.
1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 722 Shooler, one who intrudes upon his neighbour, and forces an invitation to dinner, &c.
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