loodheramaun

English

Alternative forms

• looderamawn

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish liúdramán (“loafer”).

Noun

loodheramaun (plural loodheramauns)

1. (Ireland) A big, lazy man; a loafer.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     there was an old one there with a cracked loodheramaun of a nephew

   • 1961, Flann O'Brien, The Hard Life:

     Baah! Adam was a damn fool, a looderamawn if you like.

   • 1964, Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive:

     I found a looderamawn in Dalkey Village by the name of Teague McGettigan.

References

• A Dictionary of Hiberno-English, Terence Patrick Dolan, Gill & Macmillan (2004), p. 141. →ISBN.