n. — Newfoundland
a weak, sickly person; a person too lazy to fish.
Type: 1. Origin — This spelling is the result of [h]-aspiration and the second sense comes from folk etymological. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English (s.v. "angishore") reports that in Newfoundland English, aspirate [h] frequently precedes vowels that begin a word. This aspiration turns the Irish loan angishore, which means 'wretch,' 'someone to be pitied,' into hangashore, which has been reinterpreted by English speakers as 'someone who hangs ashore', that is, 'someone who is too lazy to fish'.