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whoreson Now arch.|ˈhɔəsən|
Forms: see whore n.; also 5 hoursen, horosonne, 6 horisson.
[f. whore n. + son n.1, after AF. fiz a putain (see Fitz).]
a. prop. The son of a whore, a bastard son; but commonly used as a coarse term of reprobation, abuse, dislike, or contempt; sometimes even of jocular familiarity. (Cf. bugger 2 b.) Also rarely applied to a thing.
13..K. Alis. 880 (Laud MS.) Fy vyle ateynt hores sone! To mysdon was ay þi wone. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 410 An houre sone for soþ ich wes. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2016 Þow gadelyng horesone, lecher, & stronge þef. c1400Brut i. 207 He despisede þe grettest lordes.., and callede Sir Robert Clare Erl of Gloucestre, ‘Horessone’. a1425Cursor M. 11879 (Trin.) ‘Hore sones [Cott. Fiȝ aputains]’ he seide ‘what are ȝe’? ‘Leches’ þei seide ‘to leche þe’. 1481Caxton Reynard xxi. (Arb.) 53, I trusted..so moche the fals horeson the foxe. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 68 Of what estate soever he be,..usyng to swere customably by Goddes body..unreverently..that they charge the Butler to geve him no wyne at the meles... There was a lyke motion to be made for the customable word of hoursen. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxxvii. 139 b/1 Kyng Dampeter was greatly chafed and moche desyred to mete with the bastarde his brother, and sayd, where is yt horeson, that calleth hym selfe kynge of Castell. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 79 b, The mother merelye beynge disposed, wyll saye to her swete Sonne: Ah you little hore⁓son, wyll you serue me so? 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 135 Do they not graunt them selues to be whore sonnes all the packe of them? [orig. nonne meretricum sese filios esse fatentur?]. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. iv. 19 Masse, and well said, a merrie horson, ha! 1613― Hen. VIII, i. iii. 39 The slye whorsons Haue got a speeding tricke to lay downe Ladies. 1659Gayton Art Longevity 83 Nuts are dry whorsons. 1679Roxb. Ball. (1883) IV. 614 Beware of those that..tamper with thy foolish whoreson, And by false arguments ensnare The youth to think he is thy heir. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. v, Nic. Frog was a cunning sly Whoreson. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxviii, They..bestowed..some round dozen of curses on them, as lazy knaves and blind whoresons. 1826Southey Devil's Walk liii, Whoever shall say that to Porson These best of all verses belong, He is an untruth-telling whoreson. 1926[see ingle n.2]. 1975Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 1 Nov. 21/1 If the whoreson who dropped his socks into the chamber pot and sold the results to a lantern jaws like you is not at a rope's end since this fortnight, there is no justice left on earth!
b. attrib.: commonly as a coarsely abusive epithet, applied to a person or thing: Vile, abominable, execrable, detestable, ‘wretched’, ‘scurvy’, ‘bloody’; also sometimes expressing humorous familiarity or commendation.
c1440York Myst. xxx. 60 Why, go bette, horosonne boy, when I bidde þe. 1533Gau Richt Vay 15 Scheyme happine the lowne hursone theiff. 1534in Suss. Star Chamber Proc. (1913) 40 Thow horisson prist yff thow ons move thow shalt dye. 1577–82Breton Toys of an Idle Head Wks. (Grosart) I. 30/1 Faith, she will say, you whorson Page, Ile purchase you an heritage. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 225 Ah, you whorson little valiant Villaine, you! Ibid. iii. ii. 193 Fal. What disease hast thou? Bul. A whorson cold sir, a cough sir. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster i. i, Oh! this same whorson Conscience, how it jades us! 1646Trapp Comm. John x. 8 Ah whoreson-thieves, rob God of his glory! said D. Taylor. 1739Joe Miller's Jests 37 Thou Whoreson Rascal. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xx, Ambition, and pride, and envy, and lechery, and other whoreson passions. a1763Shenstone Ess. iv. Wks. 1777 II. 16 The Impromptu, for which I was utterly disqualified by a whoreson slowness of apprehension. 1816Keats Lett. Wks. 1889 III. 47 It was so whoreson a Night that I stopped there all the next day. 1821Scott Kenilw. xvii, Some of his whoreson poetry (I crave your Grace's pardon for such a phrase) has rung in mine ears. 1909E. Pound Exultations 14 You whoreson dog, Papiols, come! |