debosh

English

Verb

debosh (third-person singular simple present deboshes, present participle deboshing, simple past and past participle deboshed or debosht)

1. Obsolete form of debauch.
   • c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:

     Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.

References

• “debosh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• boshed