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- noun Plural form of
porpus .
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Examples
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I mean seriously, why would people want to be shipped off to Iraq to get killed for useless economic porpuses hidden by dumb presidents like GWB.
Not asking; telling 2009
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June 15, 2009 at 10:58 am for teh edjoomacayshunal porpuses, right?
Yeah – you were rite Pete - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Suffis to say, that now I dixcovered what basins was made for — that for many, many hours, I lay in a hagony of exostion, dead to all intense and porpuses, the rain pattering in my face, the salers tramplink over my body — the panes of purgatory going on inside.
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He was a quiet young fellow enough at fust; but it was Mr.B. who (for his own porpuses, no doubt,) had got him into this kind of life.
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And from such occurrences as these, perhaps, mingled with careless observation of the motions and appearances of porpuses, basking sharks, and balænopterous whales, appears to have originated every thing that has been said about American sea-serpents.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 365, April 11, 1829 Various
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"The only reason de turkle didn't go was it t'ought we'se porpuses."
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The inhabitants of this wat'ry world seem to bid us welcome; the Sea appears quite populous, droves of porpuses, like flocks of Sheep, pass close by us.
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He was a quiet young fellow enough at fust; but it was Mr.B. who (for his own porpuses, no doubt,) had got him into this kind of life.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Suffis to say, that now I dixcovered what basins was made for -- that for many, many hours, I lay in a hagony of exostion, dead to all intense and porpuses, the rain pattering in my face, the salers tramplink over my body -- the panes of purgatory going on inside.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Heaven, for wise porpuses, hath ordained that I should change my name and citation in life, so that I am not to be considered any more as manager of my brother’s family; but as I cannot surrender up my stewardship till I have settled with you and
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