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quarrons en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /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.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, qualifier:thieves' cant) The body.
   • 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:
   • Salmon draws Its lovely quarrons through the pool. 1932, Wystan Hugh Auden, The Orators:
   • 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:

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Synonyms

body