gish

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Father Nannar, lord of E-gish-shir-gal, [436] chief of the gods,

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  • Tamas your tiresome gish galloping is, well, tiresome. —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
  • Tcl got much of its bad reputation because people would try to write big (gish) programs in Tcl itself rather than subscribe to the philosophy outlined above. —  LXer Linux News
  • Yes, as I type this, "rachel glandorf" is the top trend on Google, ahead of "strange cloud hangs over city" (No. 3), "john wooden" (No. 9), "my calorie number" (No. 15), "lillian gish" —  Deadspin
  • I learn that someone named Dan Riehl recently encountered some black people who "thug [gish]" black people do? —  Acephalous
  • Sunderland, his chief counsellor, represented that the tories were averse to the continuance of a war which had been productive of nothing but damage and disgrace; whereas, the whigs were much more tractable, and would bleed freely, partly from the terror of invasion and popery, partly from the ambition of being courted by the crown, and partly from the prospect of advantage, in advancing money to the government on the funds established by parliament; for that sort of traffic which obtained the appellation of the monied interest was altogether a whig-gish institution. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. From William and Mary to George II.
 

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