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- verb Present participle of
mell .
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Examples
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My clean, soap-melling boss is on the other side, waiting for me to walk to a meeting with her.
bebelua Diary Entry bebelua 2001
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The left side was overgrown with foul-looking and - melling weeds and had statuary that was downright disgusting.
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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The left side was overgrown with foul-looking and - melling weeds and had statuary that was downright disgusting.
Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996
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'It's an awkward thing for me to be melling wi', 'said Hepburn, reluctantly.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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'It's an awkward thing for me to be melling wi', 'said Hepburn, reluctantly.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Now sicker I see, thou doest but clatter: harme may come of melling.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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In the comments section, the readers made it clear they were not amused: torr melling: "you must be joking. this has to be the most pathetic 'endorsement' of a candidate i've ever read. leelaa:" wow!
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After a little more food I rolled out s melling like a daisy.
gwadzilla 2008
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The Shertzers 'Sunday morning departure was more circus troupe escape than suburban exodus, the pell-melling ruckus of their two preschool twins and one toddler (the last child an eight-pound surprise, a little girl conceived against all precautions.
Neighbors 2009
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The Shertzers 'Sunday morning departure was more circus troupe escape than suburban exodus, the pell-melling ruckus of their two preschool twins and one toddler (the last child an eight-pound surprise, a little girl conceived against all precautions.
Neighbors 2009
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