[ UK /ʃˌɪlˈe‍ɪlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn)
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How To Use shillelagh In A Sentence

  • Ballybunion, for instance, has 36 holes in the dunes, but 18 of them are great and 18 are such that you couldn't persuade me to play them even with a shillelagh.
  • The whiskey and stew were in plentiful supply and Paddy's two-year-old son Dylan was bashing a handmade Union Jack piñata with a shillelagh.
  • And in the immortal words of John Belushi, "I'd like to smash you in the face with my shillelagh". Happy St. Pee's Day
  • The shillelagh is hung on the wall now, for the most part, and faction fighting is at an end; but in the very last moments of it there were still 'ructions' between the Fitzgeralds and the Moriartys, and the age-old reason of the quarrel was, according to the Fitzgeralds, the betrayal of the 'Cause of Ireland. ' Penelope's Irish Experiences
  • The rest of the day I'll spend wandering the halls of Congress with my shillelagh and shamrocks, doing my best impersonation of St. Patrick as I try to drive the snakes out of Capitol Hill. The Green They Steal, the Greed They Wear ...a St. Patrick's Day Lamentation
  • Because it's full of the kind of leprechaun, shillelagh, Erin Go Bragh factor, which is a bit cringy. Bell X1: Rock Dressed In Electro Beats
  • Incidentally, here's a good place to learn more about your shillelagh.
  • She caressed his flaccid shillelagh, wondering if Ricki would ever forgive her; wondering, too, if she would have felt half this good after sex with Ricki. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
  • For those not versed in Irish history or post WWII cartoons, a shillelagh is a wooden club, typically made from a stout knotty stick, with a large knob on the end. Dustbury.com » How do you do, too?
  • Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads,
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