Meanings
- literaryAn irregular plural of corpse, used to indicate an uneducated speaker.
[W]ith a jeer about "stinking corpseses," the villains went away for the night.
1873, Stephen J. MacKenna, Kings Beeches: Stories of Old Chums, page 3532 more examples
"It's a judgment on us, sir - that's my view; and I, for one, is of opinion that the judgment isn't half done yet, and when it is done we shall be done too, and just stop in these beastly caves with the ghosts and the corpseses for once and all."
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC"But it's bad enough for to be a-graftin' in this here place where it never stops rainin' long enough so's a man can get a bit uv a smoke when he's on deck, but bumpin ' inter these here corpseses what should be buried proper[.]"
1949, Clarence Benham, Diver's Luck: A Story of Pearling Days, page 206
Origin
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