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[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʃɒtən/, /-n̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʃɑtən/, /-n̩/
- Rhymes: -ɒtən
Verb
[edit]shotten
- (archaic) past participle of shoot
Adjective
[edit]shotten (not comparable)
- Having ejected the spawn.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- Falstaff (to Francis): If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring.
- Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
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