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- adjective informal Infested with
cockroaches .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Try and do this without letting the black cockroachy things hit you or the red trail you leave behind, since you'll lose a life.
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More importantly, how could I have taken out the potentially cockroachy trash that had been staring me down intimidatingly all day, without her moral support?
Archive 2006-09-01 tannaz 2006
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More importantly, how could I have taken out the potentially cockroachy trash that had been staring me down intimidatingly all day, without her moral support?
It takes a village tannaz 2006
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"Don't yer know 'er?" he repeated, pausing in his task of scooping some black cockroachy sugar from the bottom of a bin.
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Look at me, another accessory, come two thousand miles on a garlicky, cockroachy banana steamer all the way from South America to connive at the sacrifice -- please to observe how lightly my guilt rests upon my shoulders.
Waifs and Strays Part 1 O. Henry 1886
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"'Monseer,' says I, lingerin ',' will you tell a poor little Irishman this: When I set foot on your cockroachy
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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"'Monseer,' says I, lingerin ',' will you tell a poor little Irishman this: When I set foot on your cockroachy steamer, and breathed liberal and revolutionary sentiments into your sour wine, did you think I was conspirin 'to sling a pick on your contemptuous little railroad?
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886
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