churtonous

Updated: June 18, 2025

Sometimes the day was enlivened by a form of amusement ever beloved of the colonists by public punishments. For instance, at the training day at Kittery, Me., in 1690, two men "road the woodin Horse for dangerous and churtonous carig and mallplying of oaths."

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England