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- adjective US, slang
Pretty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its true, yes i think she has characteristics some would define as purdy and yes she is valedictorian and clearly an intelligent, charming, and wonderful person.
lazarus Diary Entry lazarus 2003
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I thought it was 'purdy' down here in these parts, pilgrim.
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'til their health gives, I'd want to make it perfectly clear that I am not: I'd present facts and numbers, not' purdy 'words and sweet nothings.
Joystiq 2010
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Well it "ain't purdy" as my Grandpa would say, but I bet he would like it.
Savage 220F 2009
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Well it "ain't purdy" as my Grandpa would say, but I bet he would like it.
Savage 220F 2009
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? norbert blei | james purdy 1914-2009
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Categories: james purdy, norbert blei jeff winke | in the soup
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Well it "ain't purdy" as my Grandpa would say, but I bet he would like it.
Savage 220F 2009
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? norbert blei | james purdy 1914-2009
norbert blei | james purdy 1914-2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Well it "ain't purdy" as my Grandpa would say, but I bet he would like it.
Savage 220F 2009
granny commented on the word purdy
as in, "She's purdy now, but she was a heifer back when I knowed her."
April 2, 2007
vendingmachine commented on the word purdy
Disagreeably self-important.
May 4, 2019