Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of fish.
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Examples
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REAL Americans, that's what you're calling these seething masses of faux nuse lemmings?
Welcome to the Tea Party: Infighting plagues conservative group 2010
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The nuspapers would be praaper glad of that, for a tiddy bit o 'nuse.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The nuspapers would be praaper glad of that, for a tiddy bit o 'nuse.
A Bit O' Love John Galsworthy 1900
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The nuspapers would be praaper glad of that, for a tiddy bit o 'nuse.
Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900
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'I have been very impatient to be able to give you nuse of me as I am fully persuaded of yr Friendship, and concern for everything that regards me; I send you here enclosed a Letter for Ld Marishal, be pleased to enclose it, and forward it without loss of time; the
Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878
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My love I have good nuse to tell you Mr Wartman of Harrisonburg was married this Morning to Miss Dillon of Green wood.
Augusta County: David H. Evans to Mary Anna Sibert, February 25, 1869 David H. Evans 1869
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No 'count at all; but Mandy Ann, wall, she's a whopper, an' when she hears de nuse, she 'most had de pow'.
The Cromptons Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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I must stop writing for this time for I have no more nuse to write.
Augusta County: George W. Baylor to Mary C. Baylor, September 4, 1861 George W. Baylor 1861
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This was killin two birds with one stone; the bankers 'clerks spread the nuse over the town, and in a day after master had paid the money every old dowyger in Balong had looked out the Crabs' family podigree in the Peeridge, and was quite intimate with the Deuceace name and estates.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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So, says he to the first leftenant, reeve a rope thro 'that are block at the tip eend of the fore yard, and clap a runnin nuse in it.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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