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- adjective
superlative form ofputty : mostputty .
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Examples
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Tarnally dog gone my shins if this beent the bestest puttiest longbreak yet.
Ulysses 2003
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"Not by a durn sight," was his reply; "its all a cussed injun lie, just to make us do our puttiest; they'll roast us all the same, blast 'em."
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman
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Tarnally dog gone my shins if this beent the bestest puttiest longbreak yet.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Pitter and me were 'appy as two turtle doves, my deer, and my maid was the puttiest in the parish.
Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898
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Know'd a feller that was app'inted once, and he was shot between the eyes -- puttiest shot you ever saw.
The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895
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Say, it was the puttiest wagin I ever seen -- yaller stripes on the wheels, an 'it clucked like a hen with her fust drove of chickens.
The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895
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A settin 'thar jest as quiet as could be, a listin' to a man that was makin 'the puttiest speech, a talkin' like a preacher, an 'all at once you hopped up an' made at him an 'I never seed such a fight -- an' you come a walkin 'back to me with yo' hands full of his hair.
The Starbucks Opie Percival Read 1895
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His wife look moughty lakly, an 'de chile de puttiest one;
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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"Eternally dog-gone my skin ef this ain't the puttiest chance yet!"
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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"Eternally dog-gone my skin ef this ain't the puttiest chance yet."
Condensed Novels Bret Harte 1869
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