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Definition of Deboshed
1. debosh [v] - See also: debosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deboshed
Literary usage of Deboshed
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1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... The same as deboshed, below ; debauched. ... deboshed. Formerly a common
corruption of debauched. ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1883)
"The subject of dispute was the character of Henry Cromwell, whom Lord Macaulay
described, in words quoted from Mrs. Hutchinson's Memoirs, as "a deboshed ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"But the very pride played its part in making us what we were proud of being, and
whether descendants of the aforesaid "deboshed," of simple English yeomen, ..."
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