shoon

English

Alternative forms

• shoone (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English schon, shon, shone, schone, shoon, schoon, schoone, from Old English sċōn (“shoes”, dative plural) and Old English sċōna (“shoes'”, genitive plural), equivalent to shoe +‎ -en.

Noun

shoon

1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of shoe
   • 1686, Anonymous, “Lyke-Wake Dirge”, recorded by John Aubrey in Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme, Lansdowne Manuscripts No. 231, folio 114:

     If ever thou gave either hosen or shun
     Sitt thee downe and putt them on
     But if hosen nor shoon thou never gave nean
     The Whinnes shall prick thee to the bare beane

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood turns Beggar”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part sixth, page 210:

     At this sight merry Robin laughed till the tears stood on his cheeks, for, as though to make the sight still more droll, the rider wore great clogs upon his feet instead of shoon, the soles whereof were made of wood half a palm’s breadth in thickness, and studded all over with great nails.

   • 1901, Anna Hempstead Branch, The heart of the road:

     Her hair shone like the sun to the girdle she had on, And the robe that she wore was of green. "Sweet child, little child, how got you there?" Down amid the grasses I found some golden shoon Wrought with fine work all about, […]

   • 1913, Paulist Fathers, Catholic world:

     It must be a wonderfully fine thing to be beautifully dressed like Master John, and the leather shoon were exactly the same pattern as those worn by the squire's magnificent son.

   • 1914–5, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger, The Story of Kullervo, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2016, →ISBN, page 25:

     O Terenye maid of Samyan / Little daughter of the forests / Clad in soft and beauteous garments / With thy golden hair so lovely / And thy shoon of scarlet leather, / When the cherry will not lead them / Be their neatherd and their shepherd.

   • 1991, David Weber, Mutineers’ Moon, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, published 1998, →ISBN, pages 240–241:

     “Yet knowing that, thou wouldst still ha’ seen me in thy shoon?” / “I didn’t intend to give my ‘shoon’ to anyone,” he said testily, “and I wouldn’t’ve been around to see it if it happened! But, yes, if it had to be someone, I picked you.”

Anagrams

• Hoons, hoons, no-hos

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Noun

shoon

1. Alternative form of shoone

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135