shuttance

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English

Noun

shuttance (plural shuttances)

  1. (UK, regional, obsolete) riddance
    • 1884, Benjamin Brierley, Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life, volume 4, page 50:
      [] had it not been for the capture of Plunger — who, after all, was deemed a "good shuttance" — no one would have regretted the price at which the day's lesson had been bought.