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Etymology
From Middle English schulderyng, equivalent to shuller + -een.
Pronunciation
Noun
shullereen
- shouldering
1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:Than caame ee shullereen, ee teap an corkite;- Then came the shouldering, tossing, and tumbling;
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 67