Definitions
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- noun obsolete A
peacock . - noun UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated A
chamberpot .
Etymologies
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Examples
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KC kept on telling Queenie to call her by name and not use the Filipino word "po" or "ate."
Home Joey Aquino 2010
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Make it posible to reserve a package so that you can work on it in po without some one else starting to translate it in rosetta.
Planning For 10.10: Growing Our Translations Community | jonobacon@home 2010
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Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time.
The Secret of Kells Philip French 2010
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Taking in a homeless person with football po is a great idea ... unless you happen to be a football coach.
Baseball moves up World Series start times, saves America Cindy Boren 2010
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Here in po-dunk Orem, Utah, all I have is a 10-minute drive to the local B&N.
Support your local superstore! Roger Sutton 2008
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Austin po-po haul MSFT Zune guerilla marketer to hoosegow
Boing Boing 2007
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English writers on Chinese literature are fond of announcing that Li T'ai-po is China's greatest poet; the Chinese themselves, however, award this place to Tu Fu.
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And yet I am loth to say that Li T'ai-po is at his greatest in description, with poems so full of human passion and longing as
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In fact, a key element of the Hellenic liberation of historic Macedonia and its union with Greece was the loyalty shown by those Orthodox Macedonians who spoke a language they called po nashi ( "our own").
American Chronicle 2009
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Someone who knows what that feels like to be "po" -- not poor but "po" -- would clearly understand why he was illegally carrying a gun while out in the city.
mollusque commented on the word po
A chamberpot.
December 8, 2007
oroboros commented on the word po
Po. Chemical element symbol for Polonium.
December 16, 2007