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leetle
leetle (ˈliːt(ə)l) a jocular imitation of a hesitating or deliberately emphatic pronunciation of little.1687 Phillips Don Quixote 496 The Taylour..held up five leetle Cloaks. 1755 Johnson Grammar in Dict. c j, There is another form of diminution among the English, by lessening the sound itself, espe...
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William O'Halloran (trade unionist)
Born in the Bushy Park area around 1870, O'Halloran lived alone in Little/Leetle St (now called Newcastle Road from Cooke's Corner to the Presentation
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meeching
meeching, ppl. a. Also meaching, meachin, me(e)chin. [var. of mitching ppl. a.; now dial. and the preferred spelling in the U.S.] Skulking, furtive; mean.1610 Beaumont & Fletcher Scornf. Lady (1616) v. i. 9 Sure shee has some Meeching raskall in her house. 1792 Mass. Spy 22 Mar. 1/1 There is a kind ...
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The Savage (1917 film)
the officer at point of knife, binding the officer to the cabin wall, two closeups of men leering at the young woman after the intertitle "Give me a leetle
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twistical
twistical, a. colloq. (ˈtwɪstɪkəl) [irreg. f. twist + -ical.] Somewhat twisted or crooked; fig. not straight or plain in character; morally or mentally tortuous.1805 T. G. Fessenden Democracy Unveiled v. 158 Certain sages, learn'd and twistical... Have prov'd what's wonderful. 1815 D. Humphreys Yank...
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The Trap (1922 film)
The dialogue titles are done in a phony French accent (e.g., "An dat leetle papaire tak' w'at was my fathaire's?")
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scrooch
scrooch, v. dial. and colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.). (skruːtʃ) Also scrouch. [Dialectal var. of scrouge v., perh. reinforced (in later uses) by crouch v.1; see also scrinch v., scringe v.1 and scrunch v.] 1. intr. = scrouge v. 1 b, c; to crouch or bend. Freq. with down. Also fig.1844 ‘J. Slick’ H...
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Isabella Frances Romer
Romer was described by a near-contemporary, the Irish writer Richard Robert Madden, as a "shrewd, lively, mystery-loving, and 'a leetle conceited,' occasional
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tumble-
tumble- the verb-stem in combination: 1. with substantives: tumble-action, the tumbling action of a tumble-drier; tumble-bug = tumble-dung; tumble-car, -cart: see quots.; tumble-dung, name in U.S. for a scarabæid beetle which rolls up balls of dung, in which it deposits its eggs and in which the lar...
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Franklin Landers
"The man who don't like the smell of a hog is a leetle too nice to live," he told one interviewer.
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teeny
▪ I. teeny, a.1 Obs. exc. dial. (ˈtiːnɪ) [f. teen n.1] Characterized by ‘teen’; malicious; peevish.1594 Carew Tasso (1881) 102 [He] growes so teasty, that by teeny spight, Past reasons bounds he is transported quite. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 342 A..teeny, mischievous, good for nothin'. 1847–78 ...
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Douglas Volk
Louis – The Leetle Canadienne (The Boy with the Arrow).
1907 – Gold medal, Carolina Art Association, Charleston – The Boy with the Arrow.
1910 – Proctor Winner of the 1903 Carnegie Prize from the Society of American Artists, a silver medal at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (as The Leetle Canadienne
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slurp
▪ I. slurp, v. Also 9 dial. slurrup. [= Du. slurpen (Norw. slurpa), G. schlurfen, schlürfen: cf. slorp v.] 1. a. trans. To drink or eat greedily or noisily. (See also quot. 1976). Also with down, up.1648 Hexham ii, Zuypen, Slorpen, ofte gulsigh drincken, to Sup, or Slurpe, or to Drinke too much. a 1...
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Señorella and the Glass Huarache
Leetle Señorella's "strapmother (stepmother)" and her "strapsiblings" make her do all their dirty work.
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squinch
▪ I. squinch, n.1 Arch. (skwɪnʃ) [var. scunch n.] † 1. A stone cut to serve as a scuncheon. Obs.c 1500–18 Acc. Building Louth Spire in Archaeol. (1792) X. 80 Also paid to Nicholas Brancell for 100 foot achlere, and squinches of 18 inches high and 15 at the least. 2. A straight or arched support cons...
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