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shenango

shenango noun: a casual dock laborer of little skill.

Noun

shenango (plural shenangos or shenangoes)

  1. (US) A casual dock laborer of little skill.

Proper noun capitalized: Shenango

Shenango

  1. A river in Pennsylvania, Ohio, United States.
  2. A community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.
  3. A township in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  4. A township in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  5. a A historical Native American village in Beaver County Pennsylvania, United States.

Forms of shenango

pluralshenangos
pluralshenangoes
alternative formchenango

Origin of shenango

Borrowed from Iroquoian.

Questions about shenango

What does shenango mean?
Shenango means a casual dock laborer of little skill.
What part of speech is shenango?
Shenango can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of shenango?
The plural of shenango is shenangos.

Words near shenango in the dictionary

  1. shenais
  2. Shenandoah
  3. Shenandoah beard
  4. Shenandoah beards
  5. Shenandoah County
  6. shenango
  7. shenangoes
  8. shenangos
  9. shenanigan
  10. shenaniganed
  11. shenaniganery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shenango (page history and authors); Shenango (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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