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  • verb Present participle of parleyvoo.

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Examples

  • "The Battalion was marching down the main street of Carnoy when a charming French girl of about eighteen dashed into the line of route, evidently with the idea of 'parleyvooing' with one of the young sports.

    The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 Fred W. Ward

  • Why, Sir, my eldest daughter threw up a situation as parlour-maid in London because her master and mistress pitched to parleyvooing whenever they wanted to talk secrets at table.

    News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • It will take our proud messmate down a peg or two, I'm calculating -- with his smooth face, and his little bits of Latin and Greek, and his parleyvooing.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • "What's the poor crayture parleyvooing about, instid of slaypin 'loike a Christian whin he's got the chance?

    The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

  • Dang me, Phoebe, I suppose when we've saved money enough between us to buy a bit of a farm, you'll be _parleyvooing_ to the cows? "

    Lady Audley's Secret 1875

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