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- noun Plural form of
gennelman .
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Examples
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I sallied forth at midnight, and feeling not unlike a prize bull at the agricultural show - "'ere' e is, ladies'n 'gennelmen, Flashman Buttercup the Twenty-first of Horny Bottom Farm" - tip-toed out of the corridor where my room and East's lay, and set off on the long promenade to the other wing.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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"On t'other hand, Rose Blush for the buzzum is a prime fav'rite with gennelmen, we find ..."
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"On t'other hand, Rose Blush for the buzzum is a prime fav'rite with gennelmen, we find …" She tapped my card delicately.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"On t'other hand, Rose Blush for the buzzum is a prime fav'rite with gennelmen, we find ..."
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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And then to my horror, he added: "Care to see 'em, gennelmen?"
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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An 'what you think Mist' Prescott do, gennelmen, hey?
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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And then to my horror, he added: "Care to see 'em, gennelmen?"
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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An 'what you think Mist' Prescott do, gennelmen, hey?
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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I never knowed as Jack Tars, and Powder-Munkys, and Admerals (as is so fond of Port, that they takes the werry name), was so werry parshal to Germans, that they woud sooner go without their dinners and tease, than be waited on by any other gennelmen, most suttenly not.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 Various
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I spose as the Guvner was rayther libberal to TIM, when we left, as all reel gennelmen allus is, for the tears acshally came into the pore feller's eyes, and he blessed us both, and wished as a few more genelman like _us_ woud sumtimes wisit poor old Ireland!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 Various
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