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  • noun Plural form of omadhaun.

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Examples

  • Billy one day said they'd go away to travel and see the world, for they'd only be good-for-nothing omadhauns if they'd stay here all their lives.

    Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

  • “It is supposed — they say, you know — to take place in the depot where they get these thundering big country fellows, omadhauns, you know, to drill.

    Dubliners 2003

  • The army could use officers o 'their stripe—better nor a good many of the omadhauns giving orders the now. "

    Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • "It is supposed -- they say, you know -- to take place in the depot where they get these thundering big country fellows, omadhauns, you know, to drill.

    Dubliners James Joyce 1911

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