Both Uses of
spawn
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- …with civil rudeness some and shaked him with menace of blandishments others whiles they all chode with him, a murrain seize the dolt, what a devil he would be at, thou chuff, thou puny, thou got in peasestraw, thou losel, thou chitterling, thou spawn of a rebel, thou dykedropt, thou abortion thou, to shut up his drunken drool out of that like a curse of God ape, the good sir Leopold that had for his cognisance the flower of quiet, margerain gentle, advising also the time's occasion as…†
Chpt 14
- VIRAG: (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips) She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orangeflower.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
-
(spawn) eggs created by a fish or other sea creature; or the act of laying them
or (more generally):
anything created in large number; or the act of producing it