catso

English edit

From Italian cazzo (“prick”).

catso (plural catsos or catsoes)

(archaic) A dishonest person; a rogue; a cheat.
- 1877, John Webster, “The Malcontent”, in The Works of John Webster‎^[1], page 358:
  I’ll try experiments; ’tis good not to be deceived.—So so, catso! / Who would fear that may destroy?
- 1992 [1880], Mark Twain, “A Cat-Tale”, in Louis Budd, editor, Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays‎^[2]:
  The remark stung Cattaraugus to the quick, and he called Catiline a catapult; this infuriated Catiline beyond endurance, and he threw down the gauntlet and called Cattaraugus a catso. No cat will stand that; so at it they went.

“catso”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.