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  • abbreviation informal conscientious objector

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Examples

  • There is a tendency amongst patriots and pro-armed forces bloggers to see any opposition to Afghanistan as a bunch of conchy lefties whining about the brave boys and girls defending our country.

    [support out troops] get out of this political mire 2009

  • There is a tendency amongst patriots and pro-armed forces bloggers to see any opposition to Afghanistan as a bunch of conchy lefties whining about the brave boys and girls defending our country.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Almost every week the boys caught a spy or pushed a conchy into the army, and during the rationing period ‘EAT LESS BREAD’ was printed in large type on every page.

    Boys' Weeklies 1940

  • Almost every week the boys caught a spy or pushed a conchy into the army, and during the rationing period ‘EAT LESS BREAD’ was printed in large type on every page.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion.

    Sketchy Thoughts 2008

  • My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion.

    Sketchy Thoughts 2008

  • Melibcea 2. 500 pprpurca 5. 1427 purppreai 2. 51 purpureufque coios conchy - li 6. 1072 purum I, 659. aera 4, 328 purumqne i.

    T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770

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