† catson.
slang. Obsolete.
Frequent in 17th cent. in the Italian senses; also = Rogue, scamp. Cf. later gadso int.
ΚΠ
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. E Nimble-sprighted Catso's that ha' there euasions at pleasure.
1606 Wily Beguilde 45 Cunningly temporize with this cunning Catso.
1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James 99 Catzo.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxix. 175 Doth not he die like a good fellow that dies with a stiffe Catso?
1671 Haymarket Hectors in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 521 Catzo.
1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais v. viii Cat-so! let us..drink.
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