debosh
English
Verb
debosh (third-person singular simple present deboshes, present participle deboshing, simple past and past participle deboshed or debosht)
- Obsolete form of debauch.
- c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
- Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.
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References
- debosh in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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