Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Aeolus/130

Annotations

OMNIUM GATHERUM (Dog Latin) An omnium-gatherum is a confused collection of persons or things of various sorts, a hotchpotch. The expression is Dog Latin, comprising an imaginary neuter noun gatherum (a gathering) and the genitive plural omnium (of everyone).

on the shaughraun (Hiberno-English) Out of work.^[1] Shaughraun is an Anglicized form of the Irish seachrán, which means: wandering, straying; error, deception, delusion. Ar seachrán (On [the] shaughraun) can mean: wandering, astray, out of work.^[2]

References

↑ Gifford (1988) 140.
↑ Dinneen (1934) 995.

Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses
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[1] Gifford (1988) 140.

[2] Dinneen (1934) 995.

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