Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
play .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete See
play . - adjective obsolete Full See
plein .
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Examples
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August 21, 2009 at 2:53 pm ai furgott bowt da tunnelin. williboi drievs meh crazee wen ai haz dis lil trow blankee onna bed! hee aslo lieks tu pley “tag” owtcide – hymns runsruns up beehind meh an thwaps meh inna thiy wif hims frunt pause den keaps runsrunsrunin bye.
Velcro cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Not aw nerzd waz pleying, butt ai noh, ai pley wif aw mai fwendz, an we hazd teh phuns.
Original Lolcat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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September 8, 2008 at 12:05 pm plz tu sits down den wii can pley moosicle chayrs.
we saves u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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April 21, 2008 at 8:11 am r yu krazie? soousa is meeen to teh frenchd horns. awl his musick is dedlee foar teh fronsch horns to pley!
i maekz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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March 10, 2008 at 2:27 pm oooh, ai jus HAS tew tell u dis – BERRY ot, but BERRY kewl: ai pley de whirled ob warkraft, n tewnyte ai can has rend- runde – meetingz wiff player in de gild “icanhascheezburgr”!
pardon me, good sir - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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But ‘sooth pley quaad pley,’ as the Flemyng seith.
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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And above the chambre of this chariot, that the emperour sittethe inne, ben sett upon a perche 4 or 5 or 6 gerfacouns; to that entent, that whan the emperour seethe ony wylde foul, that he may take it at his owne list, and have the desport and the pley of the flight; first with on, and aftre with another: and so he takethe his desport passynge be the contree.
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And he had also in his gardyn alle maner of foules and of bestes that ony man myghte thenke on, for to have pley or desport to beholde hem.
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And he had also in his gardyn alle maner of foules and of bestes that ony man myghte thenke on, for to have pley or desport to beholde hem.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And above the chambre of this chariot, that the emperour sittethe inne, ben sett upon a perche 4 or 5 or 6 gerfacouns; to that entent, that whan the emperour seethe ony wylde foul, that he may take it at his owne list, and have the desport and the pley of the flight; first with on, and aftre with another: and so he takethe his desport passynge be the contree.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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