"shabaroon" meaning in All languages combined

See shabaroon on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: shabaroons [plural]
Etymology: Uncertain; likely related to shab and shabby. Head templates: {{en-noun}} shabaroon (plural shabaroons)
  1. (rare) An unkempt, disreputable person. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-shabaroon-en-noun-0v9Zy-hs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Well, this here wun, i cant never mind his name, for they calld him by too att wunce, seemed verry thik with my loddger, Mr Pennyfeather, an' hardly missd a day cummin to see him, to mi sorrow; for i do think 'twas he put sich wild vagarys into tother's head, an' pswaided him at last to run off in mi dett, like a shabbroon as he was.",
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          "ref": "2007, Toren Atkinson, “Strange”, in The Shadow Out of Tim, performed by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets:",
          "text": "I'm being followed by tattooed ESL shabaroons!",
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