out upon
English
Alternative forms
Interjection
- (archaic) Shame on; away with; curses upon.
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:- Sordido: You sky-staring coxcombs, you! You fat brains, out upon you! You are good for nothing but to sweat night-caps.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- Clown: Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.
- 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:
- To be his whore, is witles; Out upon't;
- 1741, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 6, in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […]; and J. Osborn, […], →OCLC:
- – Out upon you, said I! I cannot bear you.
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The White Company:
- Out upon them! that they should dishonor their own mothers by such teaching.
- 1919, John Galsworthy, chapter 19, in The Burning Spear:
- Out upon you, dark witches of evil!
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “out upon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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