It bites your shoulder, rips it right off. --Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1996....an Omadhaun is a man who began life with some sense, but lost most of it on his journey. --Andrew Barton ???Banjo??? Paterson, A Story of Outback Life, 1906.Tin trumpets some of the omadhauns had brought along to bray with.... --Hugh Kenner, A Colder Eye, 1983.