▪ I. shoch, n. Anglo-Irish.
(ʃɒx)
Also shaugh, sheoch, shock, shough.
[a. Irish seach ‘a turn; seach tobac, a smoke of a pipe’ (Dinneen).]
A draw at a tobacco-pipe, a smoke.
| 1831 S. Lover Leg. & Stor. Irel. Ser. i. 199 Afther gitten' an air o' the fire and a shaugh o' the pipe. 1900 19th Cent. July 79 Now ‘herself’— as the [Irish] husband calls her—rarely indulges in a shock of the pipe. 1901 W. Barry Wizard's Knot 53 (E.D.D.) We'll..take the sheoch of a dudeen to clear our mouths of Davy Roche. |
▪ II. shoch, v. Anglo-Irish.
(ʃɒx)
[f. prec.]
intr. To draw at a tobacco-pipe, to smoke.
| 1898 J. Macmanus Bend of Road 107 An' himself an' the Playboy shoughed out o' the same pipe! |