Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Early; blooming.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Being in its prime.
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- adjective obsolete in its
prime
Etymologies
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Examples
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I heerd he gin ten dollars a plate for the last one -- some kind of primy-donny, I heerd.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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Across the centuries, they have been stitched into our Britishness as the stuff of folklore, poetry, song – from Robert Herrick's account of Corinna going a-Maying to the belief that eating primroses would allow a person to see fairies, via Shakespeare's talk in Hamlet of "A violet in the youth of primy nature,/ Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,/ The perfume and suppliance of a minute."
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She's worth any 'primy donny', as you call them, that ever drew a good silver dollar out of my pockets.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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An 'primy donnies round up, it's little that you know
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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Violet by a mossy stone, 469. glowing, 248. here and there a, 428. in the youth of primy nature, 129. of his native land, 632. oxlips and the nodding, 58. throw a perfume on the, 79.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Nor thet ther 'warn't a Southun man but wut wuz _primy fashy_
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Nemám noviny, nemám programy primy, novy čt1 a 2..
WN.com - Articles related to Nasair celebrates Beirut route 2010
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Nemám noviny, nemám programy primy, novy čt1 a 2..
WN.com - Articles related to Nasair celebrates Beirut route 2010
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Dragon Earrings are great, and come with a high prim and less primy version in the same box.
Fashion World of SL 2008
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I heerd you was a-goin 'it strong: primy donny suppers an' ortermobillies -- "
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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