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The burk, the Sharia Law discriminate the muslims who want to intergrate themselves.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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These patterns of fundamentalist rationalization never seem to change. burk replied to comment from burk
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The burk, the Sharia Law discriminate the muslims who want to intergrate themselves.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Forum Foster I demosthrenated my folksfiendship, enmy pupuls felt my burk was no worse than their brite: Sapphrageta and
Finnegans Wake 2006
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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: We have gotten reports that USS Cole, which is burk-class (ph) destroyer, was attacked in an apparent terrorist attack in Yemen, in the Port of Aden there.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: USS Cole Attacked in Yemeni Port of Aden - October 12, 2000 2000
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Bear witness of those chanting choirs that burk and shirk and snigger,
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Bear witness of those chanting choirs that burk and shirk and snigger,
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'It's a sap, Hal, as follows you everywheres, everywheres, till you feel as you must stop an' face it whatever comes; an 'stop you do at last, an' turn round you must, an 'bare your burk you must to the sharp teeth o' that air wenemous sap. '
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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The cuss that the rocks, an 'the trees, an' the winds, an 'the waters makes, an' sends it out to bite the burk
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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'Every one o' them wrong things as you does seems to make out o 'the burk o' the airth a sap o 'its own as has got its own pertickler stare, but allus it's a hungry sap, Hal, an' a sap wi 'bloody fangs.
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
yarb commented on the word burk
vb, Murder without leaving a trace on the body, e.g. by suffocation, so as to leave the corpse fit for dissection. Also burke.
"with hospitable speeches cozening some fainting stranger into ambuscade, there to burk him" - Melville, The Confidence Man.
October 20, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word burk
According to my ITA-ENG dictionary (but interestingly, only in the ITA->ENG section), this word also means dork, pillock. Is it so? It wouldn't be the first time I had some trouble with this dictionary (cf rear).
January 24, 2010
bilby commented on the word burk
See berk.
January 24, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word burk
Thank you!
January 24, 2010