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Examples
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But such is the wretched trickery of hole – and – corner Buffery!
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Thus, Bouverie, literally "ox-farm," is generally found in its unaltered form, though the London Directory has also examples of the perverted Buffery.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Let it sneer, yelp aloud in its impotent hog-like manner; let it root with its filthy snout among the heaps of garbage where it loves to make its unclean haunt in unspeakable Buffery.
Pickwickian Studies Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and-corner Buffery!
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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But such is the wretched trickery of hole-and-corner Buffery!
The Pickwick papers 1836
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Alas, Buffery doesn't, calling Heil's "gracious, magnanimous and enthusiastic" comments since her race "kind of frightening."
Toronto Sun 2010
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Alas, Buffery doesn't, calling Heil's "gracious, magnanimous and enthusiastic" comments since her race "kind of frightening."
Toronto Sun 2010
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"I am actually not at all envious," says Buffery, laughing.
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No, what's frightening is not Heil's outlook, but that Buffery can't grasp this point: If the silver medal represents Heil's accomplishment, then it's OK for her to be proud of it.
Toronto Sun 2010
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No, what's frightening is not Heil's outlook, but that Buffery can't grasp this point: If the silver medal represents Heil's accomplishment, then it's OK for her to be proud of it.
Toronto Sun 2010
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