tantivy

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if you listen to what feverish patients say when the tantivy is in their brain, your back will soon break with tale-bearing, for I will warrant you plenty of them to carry Captain Seelencooper," said the Doctor, "I do not meddle with your department in the hospital; my advice to you is, not to trouble yourself with mine.

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  1. adverb At full gallop; at top speed.
  2. noun A hunting cry.
  3. noun A fast, furious gallop; top speed.

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  • Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail--tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward! —  Birds of Prey
  • if you listen to what feverish patients say when the tantivy is in their brain, your back will soon break with tale-bearing, for I will warrant you plenty of them to carry Captain Seelencooper," said the Doctor, "I do not meddle with your department in the hospital; my advice to you is, not to trouble yourself with mine. —  The Surgeon's Daughter
  • My eyes! if you listen to what feverish patients say when the tantivy is in their brain, your back will soon break with tale-bearing, for I will warrant you plenty of them to carry. " —  The Surgeon's Daughter
  • Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail -- tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward! —  Birds of Prey
  • -- tantivy! —  Birds of Prey
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Supposed to be imitative of the note of a hunting-horn; cf. tantara and tivy.
  2. Formerly also tantivee; from tantivy, adv.
  3. from tantivy, adv.
 

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/tænˈtɪvi/
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