Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A child's rocker having the seat built between two flat sides cut in the shape of an animal.
- n. Slang An undercover police officer who checks on the honesty and performance of other police officers.
Wiktionary
- n. A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
- n. a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
Examples
“Defending his actions, Logay claims that Medell was a CIA "shoofly" for Fuller and not qualified to run agent nets.”
“Gingerbread was one of those things, so your shoofly sounds good.”
“This sounds so good, I've only had shoofly pie once, but I did really enjoy it.”
“I first had shoofly pie when I was dating a boyfriend in college.”
“It looks beautiful, though I've always found shoofly pie achingly sweet.”
“Her version of shoofly pie reflects her Pennsylvania heritage.”
“Funny cake is a cross between a cake and a pie, like shoofly pie, said Julie Musselman, whose Mennonite ancestors, the Landises, arrived in Pennsylvania from Switzerland in 1703.”
“Just two hours from the city, the heart of Amish country-known for shoofly pie and schnitzel-is calling my name.”
The Huffington Post: Monique Stringfellow: It's Daytripping Season
“Emma Smoker, 39, who was selling homemade pies -- apple, blueberry and shoofly -- in front of Rachel's, said the books don't interest her.”
The Wall Street Journal: They're No Bodice Rippers, But Amish Romances Are Hot
“Best of all, every time diners eat such regional dishes as Charleston, SC's shrimp and grits, Pennsylvania Dutch shoofly pie, and New Orleans crawfish etouffee they are in effect both celebrating and casting a vote for the vibrancy of regional American cuisine and the local restaurants that serve it.”
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Cops
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
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catching words
wicker(whichwill)work
collate, percolate, key, quay, hedge, haggard, haw, hawthorn, hawfinch, colander, couloir, coulee and 54 more...
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An odd menagerie
Some of the creatures found in the Octopus's Garden.
vamoose, snowcat, moscow, firefox, jailbird, sawhorse, bumblepuppy, shoofly, hangdog, megabuck, engraven, brickbat and 49 more...
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redfox's Words
moxie, boustrophedon, dendrite, deizen, numps, lovesome, whortle, ptarmigan, wot, deixis, litotes, zeugma and 32 more...
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