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  • adjective rare hairy

Etymologies

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Coined by James Joyce in his novel Ulysses .

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Examples

  • York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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