catso! excl.
a general excl. of annoyance, surprise, etc.
Case Is Altered V ii: Hey, catso! catch him alive. | ||
Honest Whore Pt 2 (1630) II i: Ile bear vp for all this, and flye hye. Catzo Catzo. | ||
Shakespeare’s Europe in Hughes (1967) 393: Catso is [the favoured oath] with the Italians, Futre with the French. | ||
Love’s Cure II i: Mary Catzo Signior Alguazier d’ye not know us? | ||
Rover pt II I i: Pet. Catso, a Fool, what else? | ||
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 530: Catso, let us rather drink, then. | (trans.)||
Satan’s Harvest Home 55: They [i.e. Italians] have little else in their Heads or Mouths than Catso and Culo which they intermix with almost every Sentence. | ||
Newcastle Courant 18-25 Nov. 4/3: Lord, Ladies, (Catzo!) see mine Phiz of Graas! |