Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large foot.
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- noun dated (
UK ) A large, flatfoot
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Examples
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Puddin 'merely laughed scornfully, and called Bill a bun-headed old beetle-crusher.
The Magic Pudding Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay 1924
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'These are very ignoble and shameless words,' but the Puddin 'merely laughed scornfully, and called Bill a bun-headed old beetle-crusher.
The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 1924
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A Lyceum Ballroom teddy boy with duck's arse-and-sideburns haircut and white beetle-crusher sneakers, jives his partner so we get a full view of her stocking tops, suspenders and mucky bare feet.
The Guardian World News Robert Clark 2010
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A Lyceum Ballroom teddy boy with duck's arse-and-sideburns haircut and white beetle-crusher sneakers, jives his partner so we get a full view of her stocking tops, suspenders and mucky bare feet.
The Guardian World News Robert Clark 2010
frogapplause commented on the word beetle-crusher
A large foot.
July 30, 2010