sheila n also sheelah, sheilagh.
1 1982 BURSEY 11 "No Right of Spring I": In Newfoundland/No Pan's pipes/When spring comes;/Sheila's shrieks/Drown all music. 1989 Evening Telegram 20 Mar, p. 1 Legend has it St Patrick had a wife--or sister or [acquaintance]--named Sheilagh, and that still somehow she gets angry enough at the good man to whack him about the ears.
2 Comb sheila's brush, ~ day.
1989 Evening Telegram 20 Mar, p. 1 Sheilagh's Brush was alive and well this weekend, and if you were looking forward to a balmy first day of Spring, look again. More than 24 cms of snow fell in the [St] John's area...by late Sunday with about another 15 cms expected by later today. 1872 Times 20 Mar, p. 3 We imagine we may safely assert that 'St Patrick's brush,' or 'Sheelah's day' if you will, was never more fully developed by the elements than on the day and night of Monday last [the 18th].
