quarrons
noun/ˈkwɒɹənz/
Etymology 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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Obsolete 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, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
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- Salmon draws Its lovely quarrons through the pool.1932, Wystan Hugh Auden, The Orators:
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- body