Quisby
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quisby is a noun meaning (UK, slang, archaic) Mean; destitute; strange.
Meaning
(UK, slang, archaic) Mean; destitute; strange.
More Meanings
- (UK, slang, archaic) In difficult circumstances; in trouble.
- (UK, slang, archaic) Drunk; tipsy.
- (slang, obsolete) A wretch; an idle person.
Example Sentences
"[…] Did you know that my husband came home intoxicated?" Mrs. Brown laughed. "Oh, not so bad as that, surely! Only a little 'screwed.' George was 'quisby,' too. But then its Christmas, you know."
[S]he told me as things was a-goin' werry quisby with 'em Wilkses. I says, "I'm sorry for 'er, but he's a party I don't 'old with, as in my opinion deserves to want, only but for others as would want with 'im." She says, "He's been and got 'isself in a 'ole with them books as he've been lewanted with, and will get two years over it, they say," and so he did, […]
Word Forms
- quisbies
Related Words
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