n. — Newfoundland
a weak, sickly person; a person too lazy to fish.
Type: 1. Origin — This is a Newfoundland term from Irish Gaelic. The earliest entry in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (s.v. "angishore") dates from 1914. The English Dialect Dictionary includes the term angish 'poverty, poverty stricken, sickly, unhealthy', and angishore with the meaning of 'poverty-stricken creature' is used in Ireland. The Newfoundland term was adopted in the Maritime context 'person too lazy too fish' and then generalized.
See also COD-2, s.v. "angishore", which is marked "Cdn (Nfld & Maritimes)".