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Definition of Deboshing
1. debosh [v] - See also: debosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deboshing
Literary usage of Deboshing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1881)
"... Are but a formal kinde of dry deboshing Whene some believe Egyptian hiéroglyphiques
Are all that's left of natural spécifiques. ..."
2. Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland (1894)
"... For I drank like fifty fishes, Drank till all was blue, For whenever I was
vicious I was thirsty too." The result of which " dire deboshing " was that, ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"... Are i>ut a formal sort, of dry deboshing : Which made the ancients celebrate
an owl As the only proper Philosophic Fowl. ..."
4. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"... who was mightily stirred by beholding from his own window tin1 piping and
dancing of the poor people on the Sah- 1'utli, their revelling and deboshing, ..."
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