corpseses

corpseses

English

Etymology

corpses +‎ -es.

Noun

corpseses

1. (literary) An irregular plural of corpse, used to indicate an uneducated speaker.
   • 1873, Stephen J. MacKenna, Kings Beeches: Stories of Old Chums, page 353:

     [W]ith a jeer about "stinking corpseses," the villains went away for the night.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎:

     "It's a judgment on us, sir - that's my view; and I, for one, is of opinion that the judgment isn't half done yet, and when it is done we shall be done too, and just stop in these beastly caves with the ghosts and the corpseses for once and all."

   • 1949, Clarence Benham, Diver's Luck: A Story of Pearling Days, page 206:

     "But it's bad enough for to be a-graftin' in this here place where it never stops rainin' long enough so's a man can get a bit uv a smoke when he's on deck, but bumpin ' inter these here corpseses what should be buried proper[.]"