Word of the Day 01/01/23 Shillelagh

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Shillelagh (noun)
shillelagh or shil·la·la, shil·la·lah, shil·le·lah [ shuh-ley-lee, -luh ]

noun (esp. in Ireland)
1. a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.

WORDS RELATED TO SHILLELAGH
business, staff, nightstick, truncheon, cane, crutch, baton, billy, blackjack, bludgeon, cosh, cudgel, hammer, hickory, mace, mallet, persuader, quarterstaff, rosewood, sap

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ORIGIN: First recorded in 1670–80, shillelagh is from Irish Síol Éiligh, the name of a town in County Wicklow; the adjoining forest provided wood for the clubs

HOW TO USE SHILLELAGH IN A SENTENCE
Saying which, he flourished his shillelagh before the slipper merchant's face, and then gave him a smart tap on his head.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKS|BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG

The shillelagh was not a mere stick picked up for a few pence, or cut casually out of the common hedge.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL. 1, NO. 2, JULY, 1893|VARIOUS

The shillelagh was then a beautiful, tough, formidable weapon, and when tipped with an iron ferrule was quite ready for action.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, VOL. 1, NO. 2, JULY, 1893|VARIOUS

They wove no mild sort of halo for the head of a shillelagh-flourishing Whitechapel Countess descended from the writer and doer.
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE, COMPLETE|GEORGE MEREDITH

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Comments

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what this word meant! I didn't think it meant a cudgel.