Lexicographical Neighbors of Schellum
Literary usage of Schellum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"... from NICHOLAS FROG; which is as follows: CHAPTER IX. A copy of NICHOLAS FROG'S
letter to JOHN BULL. OHN BULL reads Friend JOHN ! What schellum is it, ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... see scour. scerne, to 'discern', perceive. Spenser, FQ iii. 10. 22. schellum,
a rogue, scoundrel; ' Where's the Dutch ..."
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