quarrons
/ˈkwɒɹənz/
quarrons noun: the body.
Noun
quarrons (plural quarronses)
- The body.
- 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 33
- Unfallen 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 […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- body
Synonyms of quarrons
Forms of quarrons
| plural | quarronses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | quaroms |
| alternative form | quaromes |
| alternative form | quaroon |
| alternative form | quarren |
| alternative form | quarrom |
| alternative form | quarrome |
| alternative form | quarromes |
| alternative form | quarroms |
| alternative form | quarron |
| alternative form | quarrones |
| alternative form | quarrow |
Origin of quarrons
Unknown. Possibly from Italian carogna (“carrion”) or French charogne, caroigne (“carrion”); hence from Latin caro (“flesh”). If so, cognate with English carrion, carnage.
Questions about quarrons
- What does quarrons mean?
- Quarrons means the body.
- What part of speech is quarrons?
- Quarrons is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quarrons?
- Quarrons is pronounced /ˈkwɒɹənz/.
- What is the plural of quarrons?
- The plural of quarrons is quarronses.
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