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- noun Northeast England the
woodpigeon .
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Examples
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Despite a stoggy patch when the three main screens closed for business it's consistently tried to offer the kind of programme which you'd expect at a London Cinema, a good mix of populist and art house.
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Despite a stoggy patch when the three main screens closed for business it's consistently tried to offer the kind of programme which you'd expect at a London Cinema, a good mix of populist and art house.
Archive 2003-12-28 2003
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Louis XV legs show a curve, also, but no longer the stoggy, squat cabriole of the over-fed gallant.
The Art of Interior Decoration Grace Wood
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We used to think that these were prosey, stoggy, flat-footed days, but there is any amount of adventure -- from the fields of Flanders to the mountains of Colombia -- even the Spanish main has had its rebirth.
Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892
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Old people tend to look ... well old and stoggy and when I go out I don't want to see someone who could be my grandma or grandpa serving me ... it's sad and it ruins the whole experience. registration.
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Meghan seems to have more common sense than the entire Republican Party put together … the old stoggy cows of politics of yore need to be put out to pasture and a new generation of citizens need to step up … campaigns should be fought tooth and nail, but after, recognize the victor (after all he is the choice of the people and not some alien dropped from another planet!) and move on with the business of serving the people.
CNN Political Ticker 2009
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