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“Hi towser, the hairy man as in that scene from the 40 year old virgin?”
“Now I held king and queen, being three — a natural towser, making fifteen — and tiddy, nineteen.”
“Her mouth was rose-red and tolerable small, but always ready for a smile, and she was a slim, active creature, a towser for work, yet full of the joy of life and ready enough for a mite of pleasure if it came her way.”
“Then he starts hauling and mauling and talking to him in Irish and the old towser growling, letting on to answer, like a duet in the opera.”
“Eh? And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and, by Jesus, he near throttled him.”
“Cruelty afflicts poor towser with hunger, overworks the gentle horse and severely goads the patient”
“Now I held king and queen, being three -- a natural towser, making fifteen -- and tiddy, nineteen.”
“Koala Bear: towser, interesting article and somewhat surprised that Japan have put a target deadline to win the 2050 World Cup ..”
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Cannon Names
A place for me to keep the names I see on cannons. Leave me alone. I already know I'm a geek.
"'Nothing can exceed the cannon's noble roar,' said the gunner. 'Squibs and burning tar-ba...sudden death, jumping billy, wilful murder, towser, true blue, viper, mad anthony, bulldog, nancy's fancy, belcher, tom cribb, game chicken and 13 more...
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hernesheir A coarse apron worn by maid-servants in working. - an old provincial term from Devonshire, recorded in Grose's 1787 A Provincial Glossary. May 3, 2011
sionnach OED: towser, -zer v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to worry as a dog does.
c1680 Hickeringill Hist. Whiggism i. Wks. 1716 I. 37 If they get a piece of a Text by the end..they do so tear it, and towze it, and towzer it..that they lose themselves. Oct 28, 2007
brtom "And with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and, by Jesus, he near throttled him."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12 Jan 13, 2007