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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
debosh .
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Examples
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Southern men were proud of being gentlemen, although they have been told in every conceivable tone that it was a foolish pride, -- foolish in itself, foolish in that it did not have the heraldic backing that was claimed for it; the utmost concession being that a number of "deboshed" younger sons of decayed gentry had been shipped to Virginia in the early settlement of that colony.
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Diderot always seems to us a kind of deboshed Lessing.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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"deboshed," of simple English yeomen, of plain Scotch-Irish
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While they were in this deboshed state behold, there came a knocking at the door; so they bade him who knocked enter, and behold, it was the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Rashid.
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Why, thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day?
The Tempest 2004
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But even as the meaning of “brave” took firm hold, Shakespeare recognized that the word had acquired a different sense, of “overly audacious, too forward”: in his 1605 King Lear, he wrote of “men so disordered, so deboshed and bold.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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But even as the meaning of “brave” took firm hold, Shakespeare recognized that the word had acquired a different sense, of “overly audacious, too forward”: in his 1605 King Lear, he wrote of “men so disordered, so deboshed and bold.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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'Why I could knock you off your perch for that, you deboshed fish!' she exclaimed.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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The Cavaliers were even more subject to panics than the Puritans, as was but natural, seeing that they could not or would not be disciplined; and there were many of the leaders of the deboshed, godless crew of whom it could have been sung, as it was of Peveril of the Peak, --
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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The fact is we have in Mr. Chesterton the true product of the deboshed hapenny press ....
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
chained_bear commented on the word deboshed
"He had done what he could to keep them occupied... they could not really compete with the pleasures of the town. 'Deboshed, improvident fish,' he muttered, passing down the line with a stern and even righteous expression. And their officers were not much better either: ... Adams the purser and the two master's mates, Honey and Maitland, had been to the same party, and the same pall of liverish heaviness hung over them; while Gill, the master, looked ready to hang himself—this however was his usual expression."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 43
February 15, 2008