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- verb Common misspelling of
referring .
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Examples
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A neologism refering to the bloggers at feministe.
"[B]irth control ... messes with God’s will, God’s will to permanently relieve me from cat litter duty. Because God has nothing better to do." Ann Althouse 2008
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(Which explains why Bad Mother persists in refering to herself in the third person and driving herself and her three readers slowly but certainly insane.)
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When I lived in Rochester, I heard words like Dago, Guinea (I am not sure it how it is spelled but it is derogative term refering to Ameican Italians), Whop; here in Oklahoma and Texas I hear Wetback, Spic, Gresserused the same way.
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The country to which you are refering is officially known as the “United States of America.”
Microsoft: 419 cop 2005
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Incidentally, on the word “consumer”: I worked at a food pantry for a few years, and the touchy-feely word we were told to use in refering to our bottom-class patrons was “consumer.”
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When I lived in Rochester, I heard words like Dago, Guinea (I am not sure it how it is spelled but it is derogative term refering to Ameican Italians), Whop; here in Oklahoma and Texas I hear Wetback, Spic, Gresserused the same way.
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The term "coolie" is a pejorative term refering to usually unskilled laborers from Asia, particularly China and India. . .
City Council Stands Up To ACLU on Behalf of LAPD and The City 2006
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This is a psychological term refering to a person losing coherent contact with exterior reality, seemingly drifting away for a more or less extended period, wherein his/her behavior can be disconnected, bizarre, affectless or with inappropriate affect — sort of like extreme, borderline pathological, daydreaming.
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Consider the opening lines of "Septentrion," a word that is obsolete in English, refering to the North:
Silliman's Blog 2009
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wanted to tell bee that 'stole' is a phrase refering to a light dupatta in india these days...
Orissa: Food & Images TheCooker 2007
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