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† ˈcatso slang. Obs.
Also catzo.
[a. It. cazzo, membrum virile, also word of exclamation: Florio says ‘also as Cazzica, interjection, ‘what! gods me! god forbid! tush!’]
Frequent in 17th c. in the Italian senses; also = Rogue, scamp. Cf. the later gadso.
1602B. Jonson Ev. Man out Hum. ii. i, Nimble-spirited Catso's, that ha' their euasions at pleasure. 1606Wily beguiled in Hazl. Dodsley IX. 285 Cunningly temporise with this cunning Catso. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I, 99 Catzo. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. 39 Catso. 1671Haymarket Hectors in Roxb. Ballads (1883) IV. 521 Catzo. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. viii. Cat-so! let us..drink. |