1 broth, soup: A clach o rools for the shauch. [A pound of barley for the broth.] 20-.
2 cabbage, kale 20. Compare shack etymology: a development from Romany shaucha ‘broth’; form shaucha sense 1 collected by Simson (1865) and attested by four of his informants; form shak senses 1 and 2 collected by RD; sense 1 attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies, BS in TDITA and SS; sense 2 attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; form shaugh collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:
Grellmann (1787) collected the forms zchach, scha meaning herbs and schach meaning cabbage from Continental gipsies.
Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the forms ‘Shok, shok pl., shókyaw’ ‘cabbage’ English Gypsies. Canadian Paul Pope (2013) cites shach ‘broth’, ‘cabbage’, ‘kale’.
Form shach ‘soup’ attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013).