Meanings
plural quarronses · alternative quaroms · alternative quaromes · alternative quaroon · alternative quarren · alternative quarrom · alternative quarrome · alternative quarromes · alternative quarroms · alternative quarron · alternative quarrones · alternative quarrow
- obsoletethieves' cantThe body.
Salmon draws Its lovely quarrons through the pool.
1932, Wystan Hugh Auden, The Orators2 more examples
White thy fambles, red thy gan, / And they quarrons dainty is; / Couch a hogshead with me then, / And in the darkmans clip and kiss.
1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 33Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is. Language no whit worse than his.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLCSynonyms: body
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe body.
Origin
- Latincaro“flesh”
- Frenchcharogne
- Italiancarogna“carrion”
- Englishquarrons
Unknown. Possibly from Italian carogna (“carrion”) or French charogne, caroigne (“carrion”); hence from Latin caro (“flesh”). If so, cognate with English carrion, carnage.
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