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Examples
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I think it had something to do with that “scallopy” taste that all scallops had.
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I'm thinking black and white--mostly black, with the scallopy part white.
In Which I Answer Some Random Questions - A Dress A Day 2008
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“The front teeth have scallopy biting edges, right?”
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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“The front teeth have scallopy biting edges, right?”
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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“The front teeth have scallopy biting edges, right?”
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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It was a flimsy, inadequate trifle, fringed with a tiny scallopy black border; and in one corner the letters
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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All his utterances were declamatory; and he had a set of scallopy gestures that were far beyond the successful mimicry of his fellows.
The Colossus A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
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From Dumfries we ran up and down nice scallopy hills, crossing the Annan at a place named Beattock, for Moffat, where there are sulphur wells a girl discovered two hundred years ago, and made the fortune of the town.
The Heather-Moon 1889
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Colleen, in a true demonstration of grace, somehow managed to flip over the edge of the crate into the smelly, scallopy water.
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Colleen, in a true demonstration of grace, somehow managed to flip over the edge of the crate into the smelly, scallopy water.
mollusque commented on the word scallopy
The small-boned ponies fed on the brown grass, and their teeth cut away with a scallopy sound.
--Eudora Welty, 1942, The Robber Bridegroom
December 11, 2010