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shoful slang.|ˈʃəʊfʊl|
Also showfull, shouful, schofell, shofle, schoful, shofel.
[a. G. schofel worthless stuff, rubbish (primarily Yiddish, and thence adopted in London slang, though it has long been in ordinary German use), subst. use of G. schofel base, mean, worthless, repr. the German-Jewish pronunciation of Heb. shāphēl low.]
1. Counterfeit money. Also attrib. or adj., counterfeit. Comb. shoful-man, -pitcher, one who passes counterfeit coin; so shoful-pitching.
1828Sessions' Papers Old Bailey 1827–28 602/2 The twenty counterfeit shillings were found on me; the sister came to me and asked if I had any shofle about me, if I had to put it away. 1846Swell's Night Guide 61 The shiser thinks to bounce us by passing a shofel quid. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 24/1 [Costermonger's slang] Showfulls, Bad money.
1856― Gt. World London 47 The ‘*shoful-men’, or those who plunder by counterfeits; as coiners and forgers of checks, and notes, and wills.
1859Hotten's Slang Dict., *Showfull-pitcher, a passer of counterfeit money.
1860Ibid. (ed. 2), *Showfull-pullet, a ‘gay’ woman. 1863B. Jerrold Signals of Distress 106 The passers of base coin, shofulmen,..will be sensibly strengthened. 1891Carew Autobiog. Gypsy 417 Got down and heaved the sack-ful o' shoful into the water.
2. A hansom cab. Also (rarely) shoful-cab.[Possibly a distinct word; the explanation in quot. 1851 does not seem altogether certain.] 1851–61Mayhew Lond. Labour II. 488/2, I don't think those ‘shofuls’ (Hansoms) should be allowed. Ibid. III. 351/1 Hansom's..are always called ‘showfulls’ by the cab⁓men. ‘Showfull’, in slang, means counterfeit, and the ‘showfull’ cabs are an infringement on Hansom's patent. 1854Househ. Words VIII. 76 A hackney cab is a shoful. 1862Offic. Catal. Internat. Exhib. I. No. 1444 Original builders of the shofle or gentleman's Hansom. Ibid. No. 1367 New brougham ‘shofle’. 1869St. James' Mag. III. 285 There ought to be other conveyances beyond the ‘Growler and Shofle’.
3. A low-class tavern. ? rare.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 259/1 ‘A rackety place, sir,..one of the showfuls; a dicky one; a free-and-easy’. |
