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- noun Plural form of
sheepshead .
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Examples
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And Max said, 'If Günther is found on the Diamir Face, we are sheepsheads and liars.'
Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006
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But they were mostly memories of sheepsheads and flanneled bathers and
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Ain't both them ushers the jingling sheepsheads, though!
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Ain't both them ushers the jingling sheepsheads, though!
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The word here employed (rewwas) commonly signifies "a man who cooks and sells sheepsheads, oxheads, etc."
Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879
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The area inside this no-fishing zone teemed with large sheepsheads, California spiny lobsters and kelp bass, while relatively few mature species lived outside.
Fore, right! < 2010
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Taking thought of sundry conditions, he could tell at any time when such a thing was applicable; how many sheepsheads one could catch in the sounds; whether the _honk_ of the wild goose, flying overhead, announced that he was on his way to a fresh-water pool or a bar of gravel; whether the black ducks were cooling their thirsty gizzards in a woodland pond, sitting scattered about the marshes, or huddling together on the bosom of the sea.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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In the end we may all be sheepsheads, but no one so much as Reinhold. "
Brotherhood of the Mountain Shoumatoff, Alex 2006
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Ain’t both them ushers the jingling sheepsheads, though!
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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"The poor," adds he, "at Cairo buy sheepsheads and for a trifle have them boiled in the bazaar by persons who are not only cooks, but sellers of sheepsheads, and are therefore called raa" s, or in the Egyptian dialect rewwas. "
Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879
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