Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bisognio .
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Examples
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Drunk! odds blades and poniards, he that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening is a base besognio, and a puckfoist, and shall swallow six inches of my dagger!”
Kenilworth 2004
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Drunk! odds blades and poniards, he that would refuse to swallow a dozen healths on such an evening is a base besognio, and a puckfoist, and shall swallow six inches of my dagger! "
Kenilworth Walter Scott 1801
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