Definitions
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- noun A girl who sold matches on the streets.
Etymologies
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Examples
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LIT - matchgirl stickman poem and mstan asked kristi what it is meant by the 'fire'. mstan went ohhh in that suggestive way when kristi said 'means uhh TURNED ON'.
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And Bush, as Jon Stewart said, was a cockney matchgirl.
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site; Jude in WV; ..
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site; Jude in WV; ..
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site; Jude in WV; ..
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site; Jude in WV; ..
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site;
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Olinda, the matchgirl, risks her life to save others through unspoken words - until she and her 300 co-workers are summarily sacked from the factory, their union banned.
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site; Jude in WV; ..
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To: All; tutstar; Hiskid; Jo Nuvark; Prov3456; pollywog; matchgirl; left that other site; Jude in WV; ..
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