stirabout
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Etymology
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Noun
stirabout (countable and uncountable, plural stirabouts)
- (Ireland) Porridge.
- 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 222:
- He's really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom's eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout.
- (Ireland) A commotion.
References
- ^ “stirabout, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
