Meaning of shakerag | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pauper; a bum.
2. A common nickname given to a poor rural town.
3. A nickname sometimes given to the slum area of town in the Southern United States.

Examples

“[…] that it is our Lords intent to trie our pacience the better, when he casteth vs after that maner into contempt, no only of those that are in authoritie & estimation, but also those that are the veriest shakerags , so as we wold in our minde thinke our selues to be assaulted rather of brute beastes than of men.”

“Well take⟳ it as they list, shakerag came in, Making no doubt⟳ but they would like⟳ of him : And twere but for his person a pretty lad Well quallified, hauing a singing trade⟳.”

“When one of the twins said that I looked like⟳ a shakerag after a full day's dusting, I was able to laugh⟳ with her, knowing full well that I would get⟳ no scolding from Mrs. Goodbody for my grubby appearance.”

“We passed a little place⟳ to-day called Shakerag, which reminded us very much of a little town we passed through in Kentucky called Dogwalk.”

“Almost every cross-roads, that had a cabin and a man who could read⟳ and write⟳ enough to become⟳ Postmaster for the monthly pony mail, was at once a New London, Pekin, Liverpool or Shakerag.”

“it reaches a village that is properly called Sheltonville but which has long been known to the facetious-minded as “Shakerag.” The spot is not the only Shakerag in the state; there are some half-dozen other communities and spots in Georgia with the name⟳, but the first locality mentioned seems to be the only such place⟳ that has a road with the same tab.”

“Shakerag's nondescript shacks were alive with music day and night, a sharp contrast to the dreary, monotonous routines of work-a-day life.”

“In the fall⟳ of 1946, when George was serving as the Chamber of Commerce president, Keirsey hired a new cook⟳, an angular, twenty-six-year-old, Viceroy-smoking woman named Essie Howard, who lived in the black slum Shakerag with her husband, Seaphus, a janitor at the North Mississippi Community Hospital.”

“The rundown wooden structure⟳ they occupied on Mulberry Alley lay⟳ on the eastern edge of town in a mostly black neighborhood called “ShakeRag.””

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