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Examples
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How do you get your "oaves" from town hall to town hall?
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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WSJ: If I'm not mistaken, the Urban Dictionary defines "oaves" as the plural of "oaf."
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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I'm still quite fond of "gollumoavish"; it reminds me of something a friend of mine once said to me about how he wished that the plural of "oaf" was "oaves"...
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 1: the Eye of the World (1990) Adam Roberts 2010
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The lesson for all women is not to sleep with oaves.
Katie Price em_321 2009
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And he poured out a volley of oaves which are impossbill to be repeatid here.
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A couple of flanneled oaves impatient for the tennis-court stole away, and Pet said,
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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And he poured out a volley of oaves which are impossbill to be repeatid here.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Mr. Bounder: Mmm.Mr. Smoketoomuch: Cartered around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oaves from Vetchy and Boventry.
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Actually, we've told the oaves they can help the invisible unicorns by pushing with their feet, and we've cut holes in the floorboards to facilitate this.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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It's sort of … ponderous I suppose, but trust me, if the buses moved any faster, the oaves would be confused by all the blurred scenery.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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