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  • adjective Suffering from chafing by a saddle (due to excessive horseriding)

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Examples

  • They laugh and say it'll give me a whole new outlook on bulldogging and the meaning of being saddlesore.

    Archive 2005-12-11 2005

  • They laugh and say it'll give me a whole new outlook on bulldogging and the meaning of being saddlesore.

    I love the smell of testosterone in the morning 2005

  • For whatever reason, carrying his son seemed to make him saddlesore more quickly, yet a year-old child didn't weigh that much.

    The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Mack became saddlesore, but despite that he felt exhilarated.

    A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995

  • “You're saddlesore!” laughed Caesar unsympathetically when he found Eutychus weeping miserably after they stopped at an inn near Beneventum.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • Cold, saddlesore, aching with fatigue, he endured the long hours of jogging along with his legs dangling uselessly, and could only be thankful that the skin of his inner thighs was tough enough not to break down under the constant chafing.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Dawn caught us forty miles south of Taglios, thoroughly saddlesore.

    Shadow Games Cook, Glen 1989

  • He had to struggle up — the animal's wet hide was slippery — and as soon as he settled himself astride he realised that he was horribly saddlesore from the night before, and the raw surfaces caused him agony.

    Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

  • Bike Ride - More than 1000 cyclists (weather permitting) parade their saddlesore bits around the heart of town

    diamond geezer 2010

  • Just as there were ranch hands, politically oriented, who objected to the 8 X 10 glossy of Dale Evans in the Rubber Rose outhouse on the grounds that Miss Evans was a revisionist, a saddlesore (as they put it) on the long ride of cowgirl progress, there were interested parties who objected to Sissy Hankshaw's being identified with the Rubber Rose on the grounds that Sissy is not a true cowgirl and that, despite her friendship with Bonanza Jellybean et al., despite her presence during the revolt, she was only temporarily and peripherally involved with the events that took place on that hundred and sixty acres of lipstick criminal moonlight.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

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