Green’s Dictionary of Slang

quarrom n.

also quarren, quarrome, quarromes, quarroms, quarron, quarrons
[Ital. carogna or Fr. charogne, flesh]

(UK Und.) a body, a person.

[UK]Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 84: Bene lightmans to thy quarromes, in what lipken hast thou lypped in this darkemans? whether in a libbege, or in the strummell?
[UK]Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566].
[UK]Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: The Canters Dictionary Quaromes, a body.
[UK]Rowlands Martin Mark-all 40: Quarroms the body, or armes, or backe. [Ibid.] 42: Out budgd the Coue of the Ken, / With a ben filtch in his quarr’me.
[UK]Dekker Canting Song in Eng. Villainies (8th edn) O2: White thy Fambles, red thy Gan, and thy Quarrons dainty is. [Ibid.] O3: Now my Kinchen cove is gone By the Rumpad Maunded none, In quarrons both for stamps and bone, Like my Clapperdogeon.
[UK]R. Brome Jovial Crew II i: Here’s Pannam and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.
[Ire]Head Eng. Rogue I 51: Quarron, A Body.
[Ire] ‘A Wenches complaint for . . . her lusty Rogue’ Head Canting Academy (1674) 16: [as cit. 1637] (O3).
[UK]R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Quaromes, a body. Quarrons.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Quarron, c. a Body.
Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort in Dodsley (1826) 33: [as cit. 1637] (O3).
[UK]A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 209: He taught his Pupil a deal of canting Words, telling him [...] Quarron, a Body.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Scoundrel’s Dict. 15: A Body – Quarren.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Quarromes, or Quarron. A body. (cant).
[UK]H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795).
[UK]G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
[UK]Flash Dict.
[UK]G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 26: Quarroms – a body.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.