Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
coyote .
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Examples
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth.
Roughing It, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want.
Roughing It, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want.
Roughing It 1871
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The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth.
Roughing It 1871
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Cartoonist Chuck Jones created "Wile E. Coyote" based on Twain's first encounter with a "cayote" in Roughing It, arguably Twain's best kept literary secret.
Marking Twain Cindy Lovell 2010
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"Wile E. Coyote" based on Twain's first encounter with a "cayote" in
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Cindy Lovell 2010
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