Definitions
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- noun informal, historical A
one -pound note. - noun poetic A person who does something once.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But she holds Bennelong by the slenderest of margins - 0.3 per cent - which means it's exactly the sort of seat Labor must hold if Ms McKew is to avoid becoming a "oncer" and Ms
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Can I come and see you at oncer Poirot let a few moments elapse before he answered.
Halloween Party Christie, Agatha 1969
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I read somewhere a few years ago that for every oncer of your hard-earned, only 10 pennies end up in the hands of the really needy.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I read somewhere a few years ago that for every oncer of your hard-earned, only 10 pennies end up in the hands of the really needy.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I read somewhere a few years ago that for every oncer of your hard-earned, only 10 pennies end up in the hands of the really needy.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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In Britain tenner, tanner, bob, oncer, guinea, quid, and other terms were in common use in conversation when purchasing an item.
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Fetch me that flow'r; the herb I ftiew'd thee oncer The juice of it, on fleeping eye-lids laid,
Works 1795
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1915 Hraðe wäs ät holme hýð-weard gearo, se þe ær lange tîd, leófra manna fûs, ät faroðe feor wlâtode; sælde tô sande sîd-fäðme scip oncer-bendum fäst, þý läs hym ýða þrym
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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1915 Hraðe wæs æt holme hȳð-weard gearo, sē þe ǣr lange tīd, lēofra manna fūs, æt faroðe feor wlātode; sǣlde tō sande sīd-fæðme scip oncer-bendum fæst, þȳ lǣs hym ȳða þrym
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Fox said heavily, “This type of chap: you know, the oncer.
Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972
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