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Examples
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Armeenyan massacree which is a great help to th 'cigareet business in this counthry.
Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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The "massacree" was, of course, the one that occurred in a Clark Street garage on Saint Valentine's Day 1929, and "jammy-jammy" was a presumed Chicagoism Liebling overheard at Sportsman's Park, the equivalent of "chummy" or "palsy-walsy."
Chicago Reader 2010
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'massacree' of Whites, 'cause there ain't any note-books there, but maybe your father would get one the next time he drove to Downey's
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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a "massacree," Yan heard a peculiar squawking, guttural sound that rose from the edge of the pond and increased in strength, drawing nearer, till it was a hideous and terrifying uproar.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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There'd have to be situations where delivering an impromptu massacree of that little diddy would have your friends rolling in the aisle (or trying to claw out your tongue).
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"English persons, therefore, of humanitarian and reformist disposition constantly went out to the Balkan Peninsula to see who was in fact ill-treating whom, and, being by the very nature of their perfectionist faith unable to accept the horrid hypothesis that everybody was ill-treating everybody else, all came back with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer."
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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"English persons, therefore, of humanitarian and reformist disposition constantly went out to the Balkan Peninsula to see who was in fact ill-treating whom, and, being by the very nature of their perfectionist faith unable to accept the horrid hypothesis that everybody was ill-treating everybody else, all came back with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer."
Great Quote 2006
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What good did it do to massacree all them settlers at New Ulm?
Drifting Crane 1995
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Militia comin 'f'm Charles Town, an' sojers, an 'ev'yone scared to pieces that the nigguhs'll cut loose an' massacree the white folks, an 'raise cain all aroun'!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Militia comin 'f'm Charles Town, an' sojers, an 'ev'yone scared to pieces that the nigguhs'll cut loose an' massacree the white folks, an 'raise cain all aroun'!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
skipvia commented on the word massacree
"You can get anything you want,
At Alice's Restaurant."
Saw that movie the other night for the first time in 40 years. Much better than I remembered. Let's see--40 years ago would be about 1968. Why is it so hard to remember?...
October 12, 2007