Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An urticaceous plant, Maoutia (Bœmeria) Puya, of northern India.
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Examples
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Mrs. Milray was tellin 'that he's what they call a pooa lo'd, and that he was carryin' on with the American girls like everything down there in Egypt last winta.
Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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Mrs. Milray was tellin 'that he's what they call a pooa lo'd, and that he was carryin' on with the American girls like everything down there in Egypt last winta.
Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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I guess we've been pooa, too -- I don't mean anything that a'n't exactly right -- and I guess I've had the same feelin's.
Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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"I don't believe I'm goin 'to be sick, but it's one of my pooa days, and I might just as well be in bed as not."
Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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I guess we've been pooa, too -- I don't mean anything that a'n't exactly right -- and I guess I've had the same feelin's.
Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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"I don't believe I'm goin 'to be sick, but it's one of my pooa days, and I might just as well be in bed as not."
Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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