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English
- 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
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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:quarrons.
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References
- Albert Barrère and Charles G Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “quarrons”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant , volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 161.
- John S Farmer; W E Henley, compilers (1902) “quarrons”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. , volume V, Harrison and Sons] , →OCLC, page 340.