Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wild indigo, Baptisia tinctoria: so called in allusion to the widespread belief that the mere presence of the plant attached to the harness will keep away horseflies. Called
horsefly-weed for the same reason.
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Examples
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Don't stint on desserts like the signature shoo-fly pie, baked apples and cheesecakes.
A Family Trip in Lancaster County Jennifer Merritt 2010
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Not sure how I will arrange them (though not like in the photo as I've just noticed the shoo-fly and the churn dash next to each other and that doesn't really work).
All kinds of everything katelnorth 2008
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Other legacy items abounded: A shoo-fly fan hung over the table with its cord leading to an empty corner, as if waiting for the young slave who operated it in the old days.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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I didn't actually know which jar of Grandma's to purchase for my first shoo-fly pie -- the recipe called for light molasses and the label on the robust jar said it was darker in color, so I opted for unsulphured.
Lisa Lacy: Run, Run as Fast as You Can...You Can't Catch Me, I'm Vegan Gingerbread? 2009
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So, have you all been out two lane hwy. 30, past the turn to Intercourse and visited the big yellow windmill which is the company that bakes the best shoo-fly pies in existance?
Fear and Loathing in Lancaster, Part Four: Shoe House Anne Johnson 2009
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April 11, 2008 at 7:10 am teh pi stawl will be provyding butturmilk shoo-fly pi fur the awe-spishus occayshun and congrats to CH!
Rural kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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April 22, 2008 at 3:20 am wud u like sum shoo-fly pi to go wif those buns?
Nitey nite! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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May 1, 2008 at 9:21 am well fur Kentuckee Derbi it be shoo-fly pi!
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Sorry if you're offended, but that's the way the shoo-fly crumbles.
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I comes to teh nawty-barn-raisin and I brings teh tooba-fours and teh shoo-fly pie.
Wear iz we goin… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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