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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ouse.

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Examples

  • "Ay, lad, an 'I knows lawyer Lockhart too," said Trumps, with a peculiar look; "him that owns the 'ouses' ereabouts, an 'draws the rents --"

    The Garret and the Garden 1859

  • Hence it is possible for a little bloke-ish conversation at the till:Me: "Blowin' up the 'ouses of Parliament then?"

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • August 28, 2009 at 10:45 am nice liddol beetle bugs orinj kitteh babehs purple people eater rhino-sauce-er-ouses s..

    One garden down… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • My entrance into the Exeter messroom was greeted with a west country "Strangggerrr!" stranger "They comes 'ere, they takes our jobs,' ouses an 'women ..." to which I retorted "Actually, I brought my own woman because yours are just too pig ugly."

    No Blacks Allowed.....(?) Newmania 2007

  • With her issavan essavans and her patterjackmartins about all them inns and ouses.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I said that, Annie Chapman, what lives in the doss -ouses over to Flower and Dean Street, same as me.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • The bord will contribute towards making the ouses affordable for the potential home-owners.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Is the little 'ouses all in' eaps -- the same as might be mine.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 Various

  • Well, no, not to say searched; she wasn't used to searchin 'people's' ouses for skelintons every night.

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

  • I 'ave taken a number of orders at the nicest' ouses along

    Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923

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