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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish liúdramán (“loafer”).
Noun
loodheramaun (plural loodheramauns)
- (Ireland) A big, lazy man; a loafer.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew
1961, Flann O'Brien, The Hard Life:Baah! Adam was a damn fool, a looderamawn if you like.
1964, Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive:I found a looderamawn in Dalkey Village by the name of Teague McGettigan.
References
- A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, Terence Patrick Dolan, Gill & Macmillan (2004), p. 141. →ISBN.