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 1883. Century Mag., xxxvii. 788. He gave her an ivory wand, and charged her, on her life, to tell him what she would do with it, and she sobbed out she would shoo her mother's hens to roost with it.

Shook on. See Shake.

Shool, verb. (old).—To loaf; to go on the tramp; to beg. Whence shooling = idling; shoolman = a loafer or vagabond. Fr. battre sa flême.

1748. Smollett, Roderick Random, xli. They went all hands to shooling and begging.

c.1750. Humours of the Fleet [Ashton, Eighteenth Cent. Waifs, 247]. Now mean, as once profuse, the stupid sot Sits by a Runner's side, and shules a Pot.

1842. Lover, Handy Andy, xxxiv. 'Oh, you always make out a good rayson for coming; but we have nothing for you to-night.' 'Throth, you do me wrong,' said the beggar, 'if you think I came shooling.'

Shoon, subs. (thieves').—A fool; a lout: see Buffle.

Shoot, subs. (colloquial).—1. A shooting party.

1573. Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation, fol. 33. We shall now meat for ye shoot.

1885. Field, 4 Ap. At a big shoot in Warwickshire.

1887. Norris, Major and Minor, xxv. At the great shoots he was wont to be present with a walking-stick in his hand.

2. (builders').—A vacant piece of ground: where rubbish is got rid of.

3. (American).—A fancy.

1847. Robb, Squatter Life. That gal was the prettyest creatur I ever took a shute after.

To shoot a bishop, verb. phr. (venery).—To have a wet-dream (q.v.): also to shoot.

The Shoot, subs. phr. (London).—The Walworth-road station on the S. E. & C. Ry. [A large number of workpeople alight there.]

Phrases.—Shoot as a generic verb of action is found in frequent combination: as to shoot (jerk or whip) the cat = (1) to vomit; see Cat (Grose), and (2) to sound a refrain in the infantry bugle call to defaulters' drill, which, it is fancied, follows the sound of the words 'shoot the cat—shoot the cat'; to shoot the crow = to run off without paying, to bilk (q.v.); to shoot horses (see quot. 1872); to shoot one's linen = to jerk and display the cuffs; to shoot one's lines = to declaim with vigour; to shoot (bolt or shove) the moon = to remove furniture by night to prevent seizure for rent (Grose): see Moon; to shoot one's bolt = to exhaust one's credit or resources, to come to an end of things; to go the whole shoot = to risk all; to shoot off one's mouth (or jaw) = to abuse; to shoot one's roe (or milt) = to emit; to do a shoot up the straight = to possess a woman; to be shot = (1) to make a disadvantageous bet which is instantly accepted (turf), and (2) to be photographed (photographers'): see Snap-shot; to shoot on the post = to make a close win at the finish; to shoot over the pitcher = to brag of one's shooting; to shoot one's star = to die; to shoot the sun = to determine the longitude (nautical); to shoot one's granny = to find a mare's nest; to be disappointed; to shoot the market (Stock Exchange) =