Noun: quarrons
| Singular | quarrons |
| Plural | quarronses |
Sample Sentences
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White thy fambles, red thy gan, / And they quarrons dainty is; / Couch a hogshead with me then, / And in the darkmans clip and kiss. [1707, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 33:]
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Unfallen Adam rode and not rutted. Call away let him: thy quarrons dainty is. Language no whit worse than his. [1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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Salmon draws Its lovely quarrons through the pool. [1932, Wystan Hugh Auden, The Orators:]
Nouns inflected like quarrons
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from Italian carogna (“carrion”) or French charogne, caroigne (“carrion”); hence from Latin caro (“flesh”). If so, cognate with English carrion, carnage. See: Italian Nouns '
carogna', French Nouns '
charogne', Latin Nouns '
caro', English Nouns '
carrion'.