verb. (old).—To loaf; to go on the tramp; to beg. Whence SHOOLING = idling; SHOOLMAN = a loafer or vagabond. Fr. battre sa flême.
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, xli. They went all hands to SHOOLING and begging.
c. 1750. Humours of the Fleet [J. ASHTON, Eighteenth Century Waifs, 247].
| Now mean, as once profuse, the stupid sot | |
| Sits by a Runner’s side, and SHULES a Pot. |
1842. LOVER, Handy Andy, xxxiv. ‘Oh, you always make out a good rayson for coming; but we have nothing for you to-night.’ ‘Throth, you do me wrong,’ said the beggar, ‘if you think I came SHOOLING.’
