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- noun Alternative spelling of
jellyfish .
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Examples
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I will have every joint of you unhinged so that you will be like a jelly-fish, like a fat pig with the bones removed, and I will then stake you out in the midmost centre of the dog-killing ground to swell in pain under the sun.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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We who voted for Obama do not respect the weak-kneed Dems who fold like jelly-fish when they are attacked by the Repugs.
CNN Poll: Dems becoming less popular but no gains for GOP 2009
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It's in the left hand wall hanging, and the only detail that I think is fuzzed out in the photo is a few vertical lines on the pink jelly-fish body:
Concert Review: "Paradise Rediscovered" melted_snowball 2008
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"Hardened steel and toughened glass ought to be more than a match for a lot of exaggerated jelly-fish like these ..."
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Science Fiction By the Rivals Of H. G. Wells - Alan K. Russell Blue Tyson 2008
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One should mention that from the biology of the sea-nettle (Chrysaora fusescens), the so called jelly-fish, the actuality of Eternal organic life (put so here oddly, as in the texts of the directorate itself, with reference to Eternal concept, Plato etc.) became apparent.
The Pulse-Soldier 2010
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It's the jelly-fish SDs that are at issue, at this point.
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We have none of the poisonous jelly-fish, octopii and sea creatures they have up there, so we knew not to get too stressed about Emma's mishap.
Archive 2008-01-01 appleleaf 2008
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Mike, stand up and call a spade a spade, turn the tables on the PC creeps and tell it like it is .... then call the gutless jelly-fish in DC and tell them to get their act together and the message back to important issues for this country.
Sound Politics: Signs that your local media suffers from liberal bias (III) 2006
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If this current group of GOP jelly-fish don't get a spine soon I fear they will be kissing their offices and majority good bye.
Sound Politics: Signs that your local media suffers from liberal bias (III) 2006
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But she got a jelly-fish sting in a big wave while we were doing our own version of body-surfing.
Archive 2008-01-01 appleleaf 2008
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