quarrons
English
Alternative forms
- quaroms, quaromes, quaroon, quarren, quarrom, quarrome, quarromes, quarroms, quarron, quarrones, quarrow
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from Italian carogna (“carrion”) or French charogne, caroigne (“carrion”); hence from Latin caro (“flesh”). If so, cognate with English carrion, carnage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkwɒɹənz/
Noun
quarrons (plural quarronses)
- (obsolete, thieves' cant) The body.
- 1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 33:
- White thy fambles, red thy gan, / And they quarrons dainty is; / Couch a hogshead with me then, / And in the darkmans clip and kiss.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is. Language no whit worse than his.
- 1932, Auden, Wystan Hugh, The Orators:
- Salmon draws Its lovely quarrons through the pool.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:quarrons.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:body
References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “quarrons”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 161.
- Farmer, John Stephen (1902) Slang and Its Analogues, volume 5, page 340