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quotha

American  

[kwoh-thuh] / ˈkwoʊ θə /

interjection

Archaic.

1. indeed! (used ironically or contemptuously in quoting another).

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quotha British  

/ ˈkwəʊθə /

interjection

1. archaic an expression of mild sarcasm, used in picking up a word or phrase used by someone else

   Art thou mad? Mad, quotha! I am more sane than thou

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Etymology

Origin of quotha

First recorded in 1510–20; from quoth a quoth he

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Example Sentences

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quotha

Dost know how you have alarmed us, quotha?

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton

"Shoot with them, quotha?" cried Aylward in high disdain, for pressing danger is the great leveller of classes.

From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Company, quotha? then that I shall point-device,      And also do you good and true service,      And thereto I plight my troth!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

Merry, quotha? nay, that will not be;      But I must needs sit for very feebleness.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt

Glad, quotha? there's not one among'st us, But may be exceeding glad.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

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