What does quotha mean?
Quotha means (archaic) Forsooth; indeed..
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(archaic) Forsooth; indeed..
1678, Thomas d’Urfey, The Fool Turn’d Critick, London: James Magnes and Richard Bentley, Act II, Scene 2, p. 15, 1st. Fid[dler]. Will it please you Gentlemen to hear a new Lesson, or a Song A-la-mode. Sir For[mal]. S’bud you impertinent Raskal get you gone, / Or I’le so batter that Musical sconce of yours. / Song A-la-mode Quotha, I had as lieve hear a / Gibb Catt howl, and as much pleasure I take in’t.
Here[ticus]. Then I praie you tell me, when we shall mete agayne: Cath[olicus]. Mete againe? why art thou not well yet? Here[ticus]. Well yet quotha? Mary sir all this is nothynge to that I looke for.
Mrs. Hardcastle. […] My son is not to live by his learning. I don’t think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year. Hardcastle. Learning, quotha! A mere composition of tricks and mischief.
A pretty way to conciliate 'little tempers' indeed, to add to the offence of spoiling the fish the crime of bringing an unexpected friend to eat it. Pot luck, quotha, when the pot's boiled over this half hour!
The four boys pumped up their hate to hissing steam. Harmless, quotha. Innocent, forsooth.
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Quotha means (archaic) Forsooth; indeed..
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1678, Thomas d’Urfey, The Fool Turn’d Critick, London: James Magnes and Richard Bentley, Act II, Scene 2, p. 15, 1st. Fid[dler]. Will it please you Gentlemen to hear a new Lesson, or a Song A-la-mode. Sir For[mal]. S’bud you impertinent Raskal get you gone, / Or I’le so batter that Musical sconce of yours. / Song A-la-mode Quotha, I had as lieve hear a / Gibb Catt howl, and as much pleasure I take in’t.
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