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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See faulty.

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Examples

  • And the “most darnashun thunderin noiz” as “Spra flys up un makes fawty thowsen raneboz.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And the “most darnashun thunderin noiz” as “Spra flys up un makes fawty thowsen raneboz.”

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • And whan the mynystres of that chirche neden to maken ony reparacyoun of the chirche or of ony of the ydoles, thei taken gold and silver, perles and precyous stones out of the vyvere, to quyten the costages of suche thing as thei maken or reparen; so that no thing is fawty, but anon it schalle ben amended.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And whan the mynystres of that chirche neden to maken ony reparacyoun of the chirche or of ony of the ydoles, thei taken gold and silver, perles and precyous stones out of the vyvere, to quyten the costages of suche thing as thei maken or reparen; so that no thing is fawty, but anon it schalle ben amended.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • "About five-ten, a hundred and fawty," Byrnes said, and the man's pencil flickered.

    Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995

  • I ben tryin 'to lead a godly an' Chris'chun life, ez Scripcheh sez, fu 'fawty yeahs, now, an' I hope I'd a foun 'dyin' grace at de las '.

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

  • Ev'y nut you crac 'now goin' cos 'you a yell when you git 'long 'bout fawty an' fifty.

    Seventeen 1915

  • Ev'y nut you crac 'now goin' cos 'you a yell when you git 'long 'bout fawty an' fifty.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "O nut'n '; only I thing you make me luck; nine, h-eighteen, fawty-fo' -- I play me doze number 'in de lott'ree to-day."

    Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884

  • And whan the mynystres of that chirche neden to maken ony reparacyoun of the chirche or of ony of the ydoles, thei taken gold and silver, perles and precyous stones out of the vyvere, to quyten the costages of suche thing as thei maken or reparen; so that no thing is fawty, but anon it schalle ben amended.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

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