beshrew

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I sidled over to a bench in the far corner and was feeling almost safe, when Pierre--beshrew him!--called attention to me Now, that is a heavy box for a maid to help lug.

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  1. transitive verb Archaic To invoke evil upon; curse.

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  • Come, come,--beshrew your heart, you'll neither be good yourself, nor suffer others Pand. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
  • I sidled over to a bench in the far corner and was feeling almost safe, when Pierre--beshrew him!--called attention to me Now, that is a heavy box for a maid to help lug. —  Helmet of Navarre
  • But I can pick out the real from a scene like that as I can pick out and throw away the seeds of an orange, and gazing o'er that enchanted scene I felt like the Knight of Snowdoun himself, when he first beheld the lake and said How blithely might the bugle horn Chide, on the lake, the lingering morn and then I went on with the lines until I came to Blithe were it then to wander here But now--beshrew yon nimble deer You'd better beshrew that steamboat bell," said Jone, and away we went and just caught the boat. —  Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden
  • She is a good Queen, and a generous; she gave the purse to the Earl of Leicester I envious?--beshrew thy heart for the word!" —  Kenilworth
  • Whereupon my armed guards--beshrew them for cowards!--straight ran away. —  The Adventures of Robin Hood
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  1. Middle English bishrewen : bi-, be- + shrew, wicked person; see shrew.

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  1. from Middle English beshrewen, curse, pervert, from be- + shrew: see be- and shrew.
 

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