deboshed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deboshed (comparative more deboshed, superlative most deboshed)
- Obsolete form of debauched.
- 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Little French Lawyer:
- Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady,
And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.
- Corrupted; in a sorry state.
- 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 15:
- Mrs Dibble was in her morning state of sobriety, which is to say that, having had a few gins, her deboshed innards were temporarily stultified, and gave her the illusion of functioning correctly when they were merely in a state of torpor.
Verb
[edit]deboshed
- simple past and past participle of debosh.