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Examples
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As Vespasian said to Titus about their lucrative urine tax: don't mock the moolay, even if it stinks.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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But while she was yet young and attractive she became a favorite of the late Somdetch Ong Yai, father of her present lord, and bore him two sons, just as "moolay, moolay" as my own darling.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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But while she was yet young and attractive she became a favorite of the late Somdetch Ong Yai, father of her present lord, and bore him two sons, just as “moolay, moolay” as my own darling.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870
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One wretched crone shuffled through the noisy throng with an air of authority, and pointing to Boy lying in my lap, cried, “Moolay, moolay!”
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870
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One wretched crone shuffled through the noisy throng with an air of authority, and pointing to Boy lying in my lap, cried, "_Moolay, moolay!
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
jinglebelljosie commented on the word moolay
Malay word for "pretty"
August 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word moolay
Not Malay.
August 23, 2008