beshrew
to curse; invoke evil upon.
Origin of beshrew
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How to use beshrew in a sentence
beshrew me, if my wife and thee could not make exchange of some portion of her spirit and thy meekness to the advantage of both.
Constance Sherwood | Lady Georgiana FullertonBut listen now: I have weightier matters; I have eggs on the spit, beshrew me else!
Judith Shakespeare | William BlackGet me some drink George, I am almost molten with fretting: now beshrew his Knaves heart for it.
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (6 of 10): The Queen of Corinth; | Francis Beaumontbeshrew me, there be plenty of that trade in London, and chiefly the feeble folk that he hath driven from our stage.
Judith Shakespeare | William Black"beshrew me, but I think thou art distraught already," answered the Queen.
Kenilworth | Sir Walter Scott
British Dictionary definitions for beshrew
/ (bɪˈʃruː) /
(tr) archaic to wish evil on; curse (used in mild oaths such as beshrew me)
Origin of beshrew
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