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- noun Plural form of
shitepoke .
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Examples
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Make the cows, and the ducks, and the chickens, and the shitepokes well, and happy -- -- no name for it!
The Harvester 1911
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Make the cows, and the ducks, and the chickens, and the shitepokes well, and happy ---- no name for it!
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Some animals were named for notable conduct, among them the shitepokes, heron-like creatures of several varieties, who, when frightened, behave like the soldiers in The Naked and the Dead; they have difficulty maintaining what Norman Mailer calls a tight cincture.
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And they drummed with their drums, and piped with their pipes, making mock fights, and running to and fro like shitepokes on the muddy shore. "
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