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  • So violent was her movement that combs flew from her hair like plewds.

    Flemish Dancing Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • So violent was her movement that combs flew from her hair like plewds.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • And add various kinds of balloons not sure that there's the other paraphernalia of the comics world such as briffits, plewds, agitrons*, and so forth, but it's a start.

    Inadvertently slightly surreal test comics page jinty 2005

  • In much of his work, Spiegelman presents himself as an overeducated and "fretting" neurotic urbanite (complete with plewds), an image belied by the assured and witty lecturer on the stage Saturday afternoon.

    Emdashes 2008

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  • In cartoons, the sweat droplets that appear around a character's head when working hard or stressed.

    April 22, 2008