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Shamus   /ʃˈeɪməs/   Listen
Shamus

noun
1.
Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.  Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, sherlock.






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"Shamus" Quotes from Famous Books



... The last rays of the setting sun were glorious, shooting through the folds of their pavilion of scarlet clouds; the last song of the thrush, chanted from the bough nearest to his nest, was gladdening; the abundant though but half-matured crops around breathed of hope for the future. But Shamus's bosom was covered with the darkness that inward sunshine alone can illumine. The chord that should respond to song and melody had snapped in it; for him the softly undulating fields of light-green wheat, or the silken-surfaced patches of barley, made ...
— Stories by English Authors: Ireland • Various

... two beds is, and they is to come out of it, and the supper is to be there, Miss, you see, and the most of the dhrinking, and then we'll have the big kitchen comfortable to oursells for the music and the dancing. And what do you think! Pat has got Shamus na Pe'bria, all the ways out of County Mayo, him that makes all the pipes through the counthry, Miss; and did the music about O'Connell all out of his own head, Miss. Oh, it 'll be the most illigant wedding intirely, Miss, anywhere through ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Shamus" :   store detective, detective, house dick, hotel detective, house detective, inquiry agent



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