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shoful

shoful noun: a Hansom cab.

Noun

shoful (countable and uncountable, plural shofuls)

  1. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang) A Hansom cab.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Counterfeit money.
    • To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2

Forms of shoful

pluralshofuls
alternative formschofel

Origin of shoful

From German Schofel (“worthless stuff, rubbish”), substantive use of schofel (“base, mean, worthless”), representing the German-Jewish pronunciation of Hebrew שפל (shāphēl, “low”).

Questions about shoful

What does shoful mean?
Shoful means a Hansom cab.
What part of speech is shoful?
Shoful is a noun.
What is the plural of shoful?
The plural of shoful is shofuls.

Words near shoful in the dictionary

  1. Shoffs
  2. Shofner
  3. Shofners
  4. shofroth
  5. shoftim
  6. shoful
  7. shofuls
  8. shog
  9. shogaol
  10. shogaols
  11. shogged

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