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whoreson

[hawr-suhn, hohr-] / ˈhɔr sən, ˈhoʊr- /




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Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Coming to the end of the alphabet, I was reminded of the disguised Kent's insulting remarks to Oswald in King Lear: "Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!"

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

Sir John Falstaff, fat rogue, globe of sinful continents, candle-mine, sweet beef, whoreson round man, is not a character who requires fleshing-out.

From Time Magazine Archive

He jocularly informs Buckley that his son John is a "great eater of your whoreson flapjacks."

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe you I went to Richards’s—it was so whoreson a Night that I stopped there all the next day.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an 't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William




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