Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having recently spawned and thus being less desirable as food. Used of fish, especially herring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. See the quotation under shoulder-shotten.
- Having spawned; spent, as a fish.
- Sour; curdled, as milk.
- See
herring .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Having ejected the spawn.
- noun Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic Past participle of
shoot - adjective Having
ejected thespawn . - adjective Shot out of its
socket ;dislocated , as abone .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Im not quite sure of the M2 but i have a SBEII and it is the best gun ive ever shotten.
I AM CONSIDERING BUYING A BENELLI M2, WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS OF THEM? 2009
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Im not quite sure of the M2 but i have a SBEII and it is the best gun ive ever shotten.
I AM CONSIDERING BUYING A BENELLI M2, WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS OF THEM? 2009
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the son of the Persian King, after disguising himself as an old man shotten in years and taking a seat in the garden, spread out somewhat of the jewels and ornaments before him and made a show of shaking and trembling as if for decrepitude and the weakness of extreme senility.
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Now when their father, who was a man shotten in years, saw that his two eldest sons hated their brother, he feared lest after his death trouble should befall him from them.
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Thou wottest well that I am a man now shotten in years, who hath never been blessed with a son, a sight to cool his eyes; so I know that my kingdom shall pass away to the stranger in blood and my name and memory will be blotted out amongst men.
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I vant voto-grafs of hiss shotten-up body on zis desk by noon tomorrow!
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Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
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Early on the second day Morgiana went with veiled face to one Baba Mustafa, a tailor well shotten in years whose craft was to make shrouds and cerecloths, and as soon as she saw him open his shop she gave him a gold piece and said, "Do thou bind a bandage over thine eyes and come along with me."
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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Archers uttered out their arrows and eagerly they shotten;
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The southeastern portion of the island of Newfoundland, as may be seen by a glance at the map, may be well described by that expressive epithet of "nook-shotten," which in Shakspeare is applied to the mother-island of which it is a dependent.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various
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