Skip to content
The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
Search for:
Search
Results
shan drom
noun
a bad road:
Every now and then, among other unintelligible expressions she called out
‘shan drom’.
19
.
etymology:
Cant
shan
‘bad’ +
drom
‘a road’; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants