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sherro, shir, sheero, sheeri noun the head 19-20. etymology: Sanskrit zira, Hindi sira; Romany shero; form shero collected Rev John Baird from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies; forms sherro, shir also collected by Simson (1865); forms sheero, sheeri collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the forms Tschero, Shero, Cheru with the same meaning from Continental gipsies. Smart & Croft (1875) collected the form Shérro with the same meaning from English Gypsies.