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- noun Scotland a small
stone or other small object, used inhopscotch .
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Examples
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Oh, BTW-- my own pet peever -- Why on earth do publishers waste their time putting DUST JACKETS on picture books?
Wonderful Bookclub Books! Cheap, Badly Bound, Wonderful Bookclub Books! Editorial Anonymous 2009
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But personal preferences aren’t the same as linguistic rules and what I see here and elsewhere mostly elsewhere almost always has nothing to do with what English will or will not allow, but what with the peever will or will notallow.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 3): 2007
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Ach, it's fine — ye could play peever* this minute! "
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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Ach, it's fine - ye could play peever* this minute! "
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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