shoon

[ shoon ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Chiefly British Dialect.

shoon

/ ʃuːn /

Barbour tells pitifully how the fugitives' clothes and shoon were riven and rent before they reached Aberdeen.

Laith will the lassie be to weet her bonny shoon, but lang ere the play'll be ower she'll wat her hat aboon.

The myth of Hell-shoon (Norse, helsko) appears under various guises in many folklores.

It always seemed so easy when one saw an expert do it, like Mercury donning his winged shoon, and sailing over the ice.

Birdalone said: Then canst thou tell me the manner of thy giving these fair shoon unto Atra?

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