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Shillalah

noun
(Written also shillaly, and shillely)
1.
A cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn).  Synonym: shillelagh.






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"Shillalah" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. There is also a great deal in that self-possessed extemporaneousness which a man carries in his pocket on a sheet of paper. It reminds one of the compliment which the Irishman paid to his own weapon, the shillalah, when he said: "It's a weapon which never misses fire." But then it may be said that it applies itself more directly to the head than to the heart. I think I have a very capital theory of what an after-dinner speech should be; we have had some examples this afternoon and I have made a great ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... I had a shillalah wid a sucker on the ind of it, it's milk her I wud, widout anny loss of me color, though she thritened me wid twinty horns ...
— The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives • Elizabeth Strong Worthington



Words linked to "Shillalah" :   shillelagh, cudgel, Emerald Isle, Ireland, Hibernia



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