quotha

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A soldier, quotha, and never a hair on his face.

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  1. interjection Archaic Used to express surprise or sarcasm, after quoting the word or phrase of another.

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  • I found a good deal of enjoyment, too, in the busy scene around me; for several vessels were disgorging themselves (what an unseemly figure is this,—'disgorge,' quotha, as if the vessel were sick) on the wharf, and everybody seemed to be working with might and main. —  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love, quotha--and refuse to hang a cur like that. —  Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
  • Thus then return we to our muttons, and time enough, quotha: literary pundit, (whose is the notable saying?) —  An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • You 'a brother' (of the quill) too, 'near the throne to confide to a man's own publisher (who has 'bought,' or rather sold, 'golden opinions' about him) such a damnatory parenthesis Between you and me,' quotha--it reminds me of a passage in the Heir at Law--'Tךte-a-tךte with Lady Duberly, I suppose.' —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
  • Well, I go, I go; I fetch her, I bring her, I conduct her; not come quotha, and I her uncle Exit PANDARUS Troil. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
 

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  1. Alteration of quoth he.

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  1. For quoth a, and that for quoth he, a being a corruption of he: see a.
 

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/ˈkwoʊθə/
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