troat

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Zey say to cut your troat--he cut it!

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  1. To cry as a buck in rutting-time.
  2. The cry of a buck in rutting-time.

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  • It's much more humane than the industrial troat slitting of chickens who slowly bleed to death (to name but one nasty way of killing animals). —  Eric Margolis
  • Where it becomes a problem is when we get the multicultural speech through our troat. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • ’Begorra the cow’s as dhry as a fiddler’s troat,’ says he Musha, thin,’ says Misther Dooley, ’it’s the lazy omadhawn ye are. —  Irish Wonders
  • In one of the lines I have quoted there occurs the word "troat." —  Thackeray
  • Malcolm dropped the sword and sprung after him Gif her ta fillain by ta troat," screamed the old man. —  Malcolm
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Said to be imitative.
  2. from troat, v.
 

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