out upon
English
Alternative forms
- out on
Interjection
out upon
- (archaic) Shame on; away with; curses upon.
- 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342, Act III, scene ii:
- Sordido: You sky-staring coxcombs, you! You fat brains, out upon you! You are good for nothing but to sweat night-caps.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- Clown: Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.
- 1741, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 6, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], OCLC 1264825423:
- – Out upon you, said I! I cannot bear you.
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, chapter 3:
- Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching.
- 1919, John Galsworthy, The Burning Spear, chapter 19:
- Out upon you, dark witches of evil!
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Synonyms
- a pox on; fie upon, to hell with
Further reading
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