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Definition
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
or (more generally):
anything created in large number; or the act of producing it
- VIRAG: (Agueshaken, profuse yellow spawn foaming over his bony epileptic lips) She sold lovephiltres, whitewax, orangeflower.Episode 15 — Circe (55% in)
- ...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...Episode 14 — Oxen Of The Sun (20% in)
There are no more uses of "spawn" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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