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Examples
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The collie wasn't too happy about it perhaps due to Kazzie, though I'd held her a few yards away while 'naus did the dirty work and barked once or twice, but went back in easily and naus closed the gate.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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The naus, as I have written elsewhere, were the Renaissance equivalent of the space shuttle, but we know very little about them because treasure hunters have targeted them so extensively.
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Tehy can be singing sum ov teh fey naus Brahms quartets?
wat u thnk? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I'd have voted for Hillary - largely based on her previous experience and political naus, and that she was the only one of the candidates I could imagine being able to hold their own against other established world leaders.
Looking in from the outside Glenda Larke 2008
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Retaining, with the MSS., kai pentêkonta after naus; see note.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The seafaring term is nautical from the Ancient Greek naus, a ship, nautes, a sailorman, nausie, seasickness.
Combover and Bilge Fathorse 2007
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Latin _naus_, a ship; the shells of all the Nautili having the appearance of a ship with a very high poop.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829 Various
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Sie is naus in den Garde gange, un war allei im Monlicht khockt.
Chapter 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 1. German Henry Louis 1921
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At the first step, fully ten thousand nau-naus landed upon me.
Chapter 10 1913
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There is only one rule of conduct in dealing with nau-naus.
Chapter 10 1913
chained_bear commented on the word naus
"Two of the gold coins (and possibly a third) were found inside naus structures the Sogdians built to house the dead, usually members of the same family. These buildings were small, square, and made of mud brick; they held the cleaned bones in ossuaries. Zoroastrian texts do not mention naus buildings, which first appear in the Samarkand region--but not in central Iran--in the late fourth or fifth centuries."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 123
January 3, 2017
plethora commented on the word naus
UK teenage slang: Someone who nauseates you. Used as a generic insult, whether or not nausea is actually involved.
February 8, 2018