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  • noun Geordie food

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Examples

  • Once there was a tawny, scrawn lion who never could get enough to eat.

    Deadweight Loss for Toddlers, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • It's not only a great story; it also illustrates the concept of deadweight loss with greater clarity and force than most textbooks: Once there was a tawny, scrawn lion who...

    EconLog: Cost-benefit Analysis Archives 2009

  • Remember that story about editor Anna Wintour (herself a "lollipop" who's all head atop scrawn) telling Oprah she had to lose 20 pounds before she could be on the cover of Vogue a few years ago?

    Elaine Liner: Oprah Hits 2-0-0: Media Say "Oh, No, No!" 2009

  • Remember that story about editor Anna Wintour (herself a "lollipop" who's all head atop scrawn) telling Oprah she had to lose 20 pounds before she could be on the cover of Vogue a few years ago?

    Oprah Hits 2-0-0: Media Say "Oh, No, No!" 2008

  • Teh rest uv mii iz scrawn, but mai ankuhlz iz fat.

    Yur ankles… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • It's not only a great story; it also illustrates the concept of deadweight loss with greater clarity and force than most textbooks: Once there was a tawny, scrawn lion who...

    EconLog: March 2006 Archives 2006

  • “I asked you how you feel about killing bugs, scrawn.”

    Trouble Magnet Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2006

  • Gossip had told Lizzie that Kitty Clark was beautifully shaped these days, was far from the thin scrawn she had been when Mrs. Richard Morgan had marched up the garden path.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Gossip had told Lizzie that Kitty Clark was beautifully shaped these days, was far from the thin scrawn she had been when Mrs. Richard Morgan had marched up the garden path.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • I asked Mika, trying to figure out how to get past four hundred pounds of muscle plus a few pounds of Mika’s scrawn to make it to the door.

    Crashed ROBIN WASSERMAN 2009

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