Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal (Scotch) form of
push .
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Examples
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Please keep us in your "minds and prayers" as Luis, Elva, and my pouse and I try to keep up with 13 children for more than 24 hours!
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Please keep us in your "minds and prayers" as Luis, Elva, and my pouse and I try to keep up with 13 children for more than 24 hours!
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Please keep us in your "minds and prayers" as Luis, Elva, and my pouse and I try to keep up with 13 children for more than 24 hours!
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L '` ame d'une ` pouse en valait cinquante quand elle ` etait jolie, ou cent quand elle ` etait laide.
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Peignot's _Manuel du Bibliophile_, 1800, where it is described as _L '< E' > pouse de
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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Nanny, if you were going to pouse your fortune, you could not do better than pack up your ends and your awls and come to London.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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Even now in England there are laws prohibiting a Catholic from or being thes pouse of a monarch.
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4 Blessed are those who dwell in your pouse; they arexever praising you.
mollusque commented on the word pouse
The pulpy matter remaining after something has been pressed to extract oil or juice. Also spelled pouze.
January 4, 2008