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- noun Scotland
Fluff . - noun US
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Examples
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And Hill says former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick, currently a commentator on Fox Sports game telecasts, is also in his sights to do some type of show online (even though Billick does not have a nickname ending in "oose").
AwfulAnnouncing 2009
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Our item yesterday on the Ground Zero mosque and the Koran burning mentioned in passing our view that "the mosque developers should ch oose a site a respectful distance from Ground Zero."
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And no amount of "[l] oose and irresponsible use of adjectives" such as "'[i] nherent' powers, 'implied' powers, 'incidental' powers, 'plenary' powers, 'war' powers and 'emergency' powers" will alter that simple legal verity.
Shayana Kadidal: What Part of "Inherent Powers" Doesn't Specter Understand? 2008
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July 30, 2009 at 5:36 pm hay youz geyes…NO MELON=NO LEMON, theenk uhh bow tit an thin lerrn howt oose pell.
i has a melon - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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What if the guy in New Hampshite is being paid a large sum of money to oose as a hostage taker, just to give Hillary her moment in front of the cameras, both humanizing her and presenting an image of a future President "in command," someone ready from the first day to be President?
Did yesterday's hostage crisis teach us anything about Hillary Clinton? Ann Althouse 2007
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When he was just a gosling, he wandered from his nest. got caught in the cu the never called to him, and Cano rrent and was swept far, far downstq, ge was found by an old oose who no longer had young.
A Ring And A Promise Edwards, Andrea 1995
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House, and thence down into the Pond, and the other half, round the Side of the bushy Pasture Hill, so as to oose over several Acres there before it fell down into the Pond.
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The Major traded for bags of food seeds, baskets, spoons made from mountain sheep's horns, balls of compressed cactus fruit from which the juice had been extracted for a kind of wine, rolls of oose-apple pulp, which they ate like bread, etc., all for the Smithsonian Institution.
A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
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The principal root words are "mistik," meaning wood, and "oose," meaning boat or ship, and the word has been shortened to "mistikose."
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"A warrant 'oose name begins with a V., isn't it?"
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
goatboy commented on the word oose
Scottish word meaning fluff.
Apparently comes from the Scottish word for wool: "oo"
January 23, 2008
shevek commented on the word oose
n. Furry dust that gathers under beds. (from The Phrontistery)
November 16, 2008