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Synonyms for shillelagh

Grammar : Noun
Spell : shuh-ley-lee, -luh
Phonetic Transcription : ʃəˈleɪ li, -lə

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Définition of shillelagh

Origin :
  • "cudgel," 1772, earlier, "oak wood used to make cudgels" (1670s), from Shillelagh, town and barony, famous for its oaks, in County Wicklow, Ireland. The name is literally "seeds (or descendants) of Elach, from Irish siol "seed."
  • As in night stick : noun police baton
  • As in walking stick : noun stick that aids a walker
  • As in club : noun bat, stick
  • As in cudgel : noun baton for hitting
Example sentences :
  • His bludgeon, or—considering his present connection—may we say his shillelagh?
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charavari, Volume 93, October 8, 1887 » by Various
  • At last a ruffian with his shillelagh struck Barney over the thigh.
  • Extract from : « The Landleaguers » by Anthony Trollope
  • When the shillelagh was ready, other preparations were quickly completed.
  • Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 » by Various
  • The best material in Ireland was found in the woods that surround the ancient little village of Shillelagh—hence the name.
  • Extract from : « One Irish Summer » by William Eleroy Curtis
  • Yet how mountaineer without ballads any more than without a shillelagh?
  • Extract from : « Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry » by Thomas Davis
  • In Sartene the fashionable weapon, however, is no firearm, but a heavy knobbed stick akin to an Irishman's shillelagh.
  • Extract from : « A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. II (of 2) » by Gertrude Forde
  • More Irish than the Irish though he is known to be, he has for the moment sheathed his shillelagh.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 14, 1919 » by Various
  • Saying which, he flourished his shillelagh before the slipper merchant's face, and then gave him a smart tap on his head.
  • Extract from : « Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks » by Bracebridge Hemyng
  • One of the Finest Pisantry (in custody, having had a shillelagh difference with a fellow-countryman).
  • Extract from : « Mr. Punch's Irish Humour » by Charles Keene, Various
  • The Celtic element in literature is extremely valuable, but there is absolutely no excuse for shrieking ‘Shillelagh!’
  • Extract from : « Reviews » by Oscar Wilde
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