Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pulse .
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Examples
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Butt wigglol ob doom and sink-ron-ized powse is teh win!
Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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'Did th' owd powse say that, lass? 'cried Milly's mother.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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"It is rayther waik, but as aw wor sayin ', tha sees awr Alick's allus lived at hooam, an he's nivver known what it's been to want for owt, even to his booits bein' blackened for Sunday, an if he gets hold o 'that nasty powse (for shoo's nowt else who shoo is), whativver mun come on him."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"Why, when aw mentioned keepin hens last spring, tha flew up in a tantrum, an sed tha'd have nooan sich powse abaat th 'haase, but if tha thinks we could do wi some aw'll get some to-day.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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