Definitions
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- noun a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and largest city of Estonia
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Examples
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I sooppawse yo'll be tallin 'mae naxt yo looved' im!
The Three Sisters May Sinclair 1904
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"This better work er Omma tallin Burn neice you bin a hidin’ the du ding dongs onner".
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He was at his most brilliant, however, as Detective Bunk Moreland on The Wire, a cop who drinks way too much and lets Jimmy McNulty get away with way too much, but who can’t help beingthe one guy standing tallin the end.
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Lave a whale a while in a whillbarrow (isn’t it the truath I’m tallin ye?) to have fins and flippers that shimmy and shake.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And he says, ‘Eh, ye may be raight, there’s noo tallin’,’ he says, and I knowed by that” — here Mr. Casson gave a wink —” as he didn’t come from a hundred mile off.
Adam Bede 2004
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