sirrah
a term of address used to inferiors or children to express impatience, contempt, etc.
Origin of sirrah
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How to use sirrah in a sentence
I would have thee to understand, sirrah, that thou art fitter for the house they have chaired thee unto than for mine.
Go to, sirrah, I will not have your kindness to intermeddle with her kind; she is meat for your master.
No, sir; here dwells none of your fine gentlewomen: 'twere a good deed, sirrah, to see who you are.
sirrah, you lie; here dwells nobody but I, that have dwelt here this one and forty years, and sold glasses.
sirrah, we shall have fine courting now my young master is come home, were you never courted Sister?
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British Dictionary definitions for sirrah
/ (ˈsɪrə) /
archaic a contemptuous term used in addressing a man or boy
Origin of sirrah
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