pay home

English

Verb

payhome(third-person singular simple presentpays home,present participlepaying home,simple past and past participlepaid home)

1. Tostriketo the quick; toretaliate.
   • c.1610–1611(date written),William Shakespeare,“The Winters Tale”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene iii]:

     Paulina.What (Soueraigne Sir)
     I did not well, I meant well: all my Seruices
     You hauepay'd home.