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rahoonery

rahoonery noun: violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.

Noun

rahoonery (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland) Violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.
    • In a widely publicized incident in 1968, residents of Rahoon, a housing estate on the outskirts of Galway City, picketed a proposed official campsite in their area and forced the city to abandon work on it. A year later, a group of residents still angry because several Traveller families remained...1986, Sharon Gmelch, Nan: The Life of an Irish Travelling Woman (Biography), →ISBN, page 237

Origin of rahoonery

Derived from the suburb of Rahoon in Galway where residents expelled Travellers from their camp by force in 1969; + -ery.

Questions about rahoonery

What does rahoonery mean?
Rahoonery means violently anti-Traveller sentiment and action.
What part of speech is rahoonery?
Rahoonery is a noun.

Words near rahoonery in the dictionary

  1. rahn
  2. Rahn curve
  3. Rahn curves
  4. Rahnerian
  5. Rahns
  6. rahoonery
  7. RAHOWA
  8. rahs
  9. rahu
  10. rahui
  11. rahuis

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