byrlady
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byrlady
- (obsolete) Used as an exclamation of surprise or anger.
- 1592, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell[1]:
- Ayoong Heyre […] falles in a quarrelling humor with his fortune, because she made him not King of the Indies, and sweares and stares after ten in the hundreth, that nere a such Pesant as his Father or brother shall keepe him vnder, hee will to the sea and teare the gold out of the Spaniards throats but he will haue it, byrlady when he comes there […]
- 1657, Thomas Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, act 3, scene 2; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton[2], volume 3, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 600:
- Byrlady, a shrewd business and a dangerous!
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- (surprise): See also Thesaurus:wow
- (anger): See also Thesaurus:dammit