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  • noun Plural form of wideawake.

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Examples

  • I goes to kitchin an shakes pakij of Partee Mix Treets an then I suddenly can has many wideawakes kittehs all around me!

    You know you’re a cat person when - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • These comforts protected from the sun, which was deep hid behind a purple nimbus, an equal number of great men in absurd red nightcaps or old felt wideawakes, shirts of coloured cotton, and second-hand waistcoats of silk or satin.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • They had thousands to choose from -- bowlers, caps, wideawakes, all kinds of commonplace head-gear -- and here they have selected for their sport this cylinder of silk, symbolical of all most worthy of the city's respect.

    The Prodigal Father 1907

  • American wideawakes and Kentucky frock coats, or in

    The Hohenzollerns in America Stephen Leacock 1906

  • French _kepis_, others wideawakes and Mexican hats.

    Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 Arthur James Lyon Fremantle 1868

  • Some of the men had boots, some had black silk hats, others wideawakes, -- which of course they removed on entering.

    Six Months at the Cape 1859

  • Sir Richard and Welland had put on their oldest great-coats and shabbiest wideawakes; they had also put off their gloves and rings and breastpins in order to attract as little attention as possible, but nothing that they could have done could have reduced their habiliments to anything like the garments of the poor creatures with whom they now mingled.

    Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure 1859

  • These comforts protected from the sun, which was deep hid behind a purple nimbus, an equal number of great men in absurd red nightcaps or old felt wideawakes, shirts of coloured cotton, and second-hand waistcoats of silk or satin.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Toronto was very different to what it had been in the bush -- round hats, frock-coats, and Wellington boots, superseded wideawakes, shooting-jackets, and hobnailed shoes or mocassins; and their hammers, saws, and axes, were exchanged for books, while social meetings of various sorts occupied many of the evenings when there were no lectures to attend.

    The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • The Makololo, who had been sent down to Benguela, came to pay the travellers a visit, dressed in well-washed shirts, coats, and trousers, patent leather boots, and brown wideawakes on their heads.

    Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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