Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An awl.
- noun obsolete An owl.
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- noun Obsolete form of
owl .
Etymologies
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Examples
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• French vegetable "oul" (a soup) • French croquet of meat
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton 2009
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Burdened with attempting the accents of rural Ireland, Second Thought's ensemble struggles with McDonagh's vernacular ( "oul" for "old," for instance).
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• French vegetable "oul" (a soup) • French croquet of meat
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Bu the thing is this, on the 'debate', I don't listen to nor care about the objections to people like myself from people who are made ill by my very name, nor simply knee-jerk any oul rubbish in my direction, without thought.
The Irish Language- is there a Conservative & Unionist Policy? O'Neill 2009
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Despite your main feature being sexeliciousness, you're also not a bad oul' sayer of songs.
Sinéad O'Connor: Happy Birthday to Bob Dylan, the Sexiest Man in the Universe Sin 2011
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The helicopter was lowered and the boys were escorted oul They were marched in silence a few hundred yards.
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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- Then the oul fella comes out with his bloody scarab and giving you a gobful out of his Karma bloody Sutra in bloody Aramaic or what is it.
cyclops 2010
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I notice that both Beekes and the Hittite Etymological Dictionary that you linked to consider αὐλός to be an Indo-European formation: either *h₂eu-lo- or *h₂oul-i-.
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With the Clintons selling their $oul to Murdoch - he'd be the FIRST guest to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom in a Hillary prez.
Edwards Sharpens Attack On Clintons And "Corporate Democrats" 2009
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It's all there: "land of saints and scholars", a "wellspring of poets and balladeers" replete with "ruddy-faced fishermen" and all the rest of it as the writer, an Irish-American making his first trip back to the oul 'sod, waxes hyper-lyrical about the rise and fall of the Irish economic miracle.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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