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Examples
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William Nye 'e were a tinker, and a rare, merry' un 'e were -- a little man always up to' is jinkin 'and jokin' and laughin '.
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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But faith! he'll turn a corner jinkin ', [dodging]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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The swallow jinkin 'round my shiel, [dodging, cot]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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She had seen a "wee, wee doggie jinkin 'amang the stanes."
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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"It is so, an 'a very good name it be," declared Twitt, stoutly -- "For if all the bobbins 'an' scrapins 'an' crosses an 'banners aint a sort o' jinkin 'Lord Mayor's show, then what be they?
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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