Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express surprise or sarcasm, after quoting the word or phrase of another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forsooth! indeed! originally a parenthetical phrase used in repeating the words of another with more or less contempt or disdain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection Indeed; forsooth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection archaic
Indeed ;forsooth .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He gravely thought poetry a sort of disease ” a sort of fungus of the brain ” and held as a serious opinion, that nobody could be properly well who exercised it as an art ” which was true (he maintained) even of men ” he had studied the physiology of poets, 'quotha' ” but that for women, it was a mortal malady and incompatible with any common show of health under any circumstances.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898
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Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: “Learning, quotha!” said he; “I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!”
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“Prospered, quotha!” said the mercer; “why, you remember Cumnor Place, the old mansion-house beside the churchyard?”
Kenilworth 2004
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“Pay thee wages, quotha?” said Milnwood to himself, — “Thou wilt eat in a week the value of mair than thou canst work for in a month.”
Old Mortality 2004
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Nothing, quotha, cried Friar John; by the soul of my overheated codpiece, friend Panurge and I here shake and quiver for mere hunger.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nothing, quotha, cried Friar John; by the soul of my overheated codpiece, friend Panurge and I here shake and quiver for mere hunger.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Marry, quotha, more words than one to that bargain.
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_ Pray tell that civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, that if he has any more such Sums to fool away, they shall be received like the last; Ha, ha, ha, ha, chous'd, quotha!
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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-- ( "Spare," quotha, "is his majesty's officer a joint stool?") -- "Why, Mr. Kennedy, why? here, man, take a glass of grog."
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"Gentleman, quotha!" was echoed on all sides, with a shout of unextinguishable laughter; "a very pretty gentleman, God wot -- Canst get two swords for the gentleman to fight with, Ralph Heskett?"
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
brtom commented on the word quotha
Learning, quotha! a mere composition of tricks and mischief.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I
January 8, 2007
whichbe commented on the word quotha
Used to express surprise or sarcasm, after quoting the word or phrase used by someone else.
May 12, 2008
qms commented on the word quotha
He's had a few over his quota.
The shy one’s become a loud boaster,
Now letting his drinking
Do most of his thinking.
His "friends of great influence," quotha!
March 30, 2015