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Thread #134274 Message #3642149
Posted By: MartinRyan
14-Jul-14 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Rambling Siuler
Subject: RE: Origins: The Rambling Siuler
My 1897 Slang Dictionary (no author listed) has "shool: to saunter idly, to become a vagabond, to beg rather than work" and gives a reference to a book by the Scottish author Smollett, published 1747.