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Examples
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Vous avez culbute le Stathouder, et la Partie angloise.
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He struck him with this, and for the moment got clear of him; il l'a culbute.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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Il lui donnait un petit coup par derriere, et l'instant d'apres vous voyiez la grenouille tourner en l'air comme un beignet au-dessus de la poele, faire une culbute, quelquefois deux, lorsqu'elle etait bien partie, et retomber sur ses pattes comme un chat.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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He struck him with this, and for the moment got clear of him; il l'a culbute.
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It is said that if the cord he extended along one side of the uterus, and the fetus lie more to the other side, then when the culbute is performed the funis must necessarily form a loop round the neck or chest of the infant.
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It is said that if the cord he extended along one side of the uterus, and the fetus lie more to the other side, then when the culbute is performed the funis must necessarily form a loop round the neck or chest of the infant.
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All I can do is to hold him dere so he can't go down de _culbute_.
Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886
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Il lui donnait un petit coup par derriere, et l'instant d'apres vous voyiez la grenouille tourner en l'air comme un beignet au-dessus de la poele, faire une culbute, quelquefois deux, lorsqu'elle etait bien partie, et retomber sur ses pattes comme un chat.
Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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Il lui donnait un petit coup par derriere, et l'instant d'apres vous voyiez la grenouille tourner en l'air comme un beignet au-dessus de la poele, faire une culbute, quelquefois deux, lorsqu'elle etait bien partie, et retomber sur ses pattes comme un chat.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
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It was on Saturday night that he, drawing his last life-breaths, gave up the ghost there; -- leaving a world, which would never go to his mind, now broken out, seemingly, into deliration and the culbute generale.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
whichbe commented on the word culbute
WORDIE CHALLENGE: define this word!
December 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word culbute
A large pick-up truck used for dumping woolly mammoth carcasses over the edge of a cliff.
December 11, 2008
yarb commented on the word culbute
A nice ass.
December 11, 2008
mmaaatttt commented on the word culbute
A buldozer for plowing litle or smal piles in landfils. (come on, it's a spelling joke!)
December 11, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word culbute
It's obviously a creole Italian/French word used to describe an ass-shaped (cul) hill (bute).
December 11, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word culbute
Someone who can't talk out of their arse only because their head is too firmly up it.
December 11, 2008
sionnach commented on the word culbute
A cute, dyslexic, bull.
December 11, 2008
rolig commented on the word culbute
Misspelled French for callipygian loveliness (cul-beauté).
December 12, 2008
yarb commented on the word culbute
rolig said it better than I.
December 12, 2008
rolig commented on the word culbute
Not better, yarb, only more elaborately.
December 12, 2008