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- noun Plural form of
keener .
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Examples
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The 'keeners' know that the good stuff (if any) is availble only for the first day - after that its just crap.
Liveblogging Garage Sale: Day 2, plus what I remember from Garage Sale: Day 1 Tyler 2009
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Half of them were the usual boring group (the 'keeners') who did nothing but study to maintain high grades
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As the year progressed, the 'keeners', to my amazement, found they were struggling with this independence and opted back into the regular structured classroom program.
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As the year progressed, the 'keeners', to my amazement, found they were struggling with this independence and opted back into the regular structured classroom program.
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But I didn't expect the keeners to be out in kindergarten.
Bits o' Brains kittenpie 2008
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But I didn't expect the keeners to be out in kindergarten.
Archive 2008-09-01 kittenpie 2008
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Now as for these posts not needing to be as big due to us doing our own research, I follow what you're saying, BUT point out and disagree by stating that these summary posts are not meant for us keeners.
Life's Time Capsule: Anomalocarids in Art Weapon of Mass Imagination 2009
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The women were particularly active as keeners and as those who washed the dead; sometimes they also prepared shrouds.
Conversas. 2009
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Now he was a gossip of mine; so hearing the cry of the keeners I went in to condole with him on his loss and found him in very ill plight, full of trouble and weary of soul and mind.
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Diner also notes that a number of contemporary observers in Ireland wrote about "a class of professional keeners, elderly women who made a living mourning the dead."
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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