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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) a Eurafrican annual (
Mercurialis annua ) naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Eurafrican annual naturalized in America as a weed; formerly dried for use as a purgative, diuretic or antisyphilitic
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Examples
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Liz was so out of control as a child that the coach of her boys-and-girls soccer team switched to all boys to get rid of her.
Jay Mathews: Amid the SAT-obsessed, this family doesn't live by the numbers 2011
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Liz was so out of control as a child that the coach of her boys-and-girls soccer team switched to all boys to get rid of her.
Jay Mathews: Amid the SAT-obsessed, this family doesn't live by the numbers 2011
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Liz was so out of control as a child that the coach of her boys-and-girls soccer team switched to all boys in order to get rid of her.
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All his mind was fixed upon finding some way to conquer our depression and cheer us up; and at last, when he had but three days to live, he fell upon the right idea and was jubilant over it -- a boys-and-girls 'frolic and dance in the woods, up there where we first met Satan, and this was to occur on the 14th.
The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916
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There were some boys-and-girls 'parties, but they were so few and so delightful that they only made the aching voids between ache the harder.
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All his mind was fixed upon finding some way to conquer our depression and cheer us up; and at last, when he had but three days to live, he fell upon the right idea and was jubilant over it -- a boys-and-girls 'frolic and dance in the woods, up there where we first met Satan, and this was to occur on the 14th.
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872
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There were some boys-and-girls 'parties, but they were so few and so delightful that they only made the aching voids between ache the harder.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5. Mark Twain 1872
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There were some boys-and-girls’ parties, but they were so few and so delightful that they only made the aching voids between ache the harder.
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