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  • Buckram is "cotton linen stiffened with glue" ' but comes to mean ": to give a false impression of strength,"', and sillyebubbe, "doer/with a spray of milk," comes to mean "writing/ that lacked substance, a spendthrift of phrases/ that pleased the mouth but ignored the stomach."

    Who’s running the Antigonish Review anyway? 2010

  • Buckram is "cotton linen stiffened with glue" ' but comes to mean ": to give a false impression of strength,"', and sillyebubbe, "doer/with a spray of milk," comes to mean "writing/ that lacked substance, a spendthrift of phrases/ that pleased the mouth but ignored the stomach."

    2010 February 05 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010

  • sillyebubbe might be the right word to describe what the Antigonish Review here has printed…save for the fact that it doesn't even please the mouth.

    Who’s running the Antigonish Review anyway? 2010

  • sillyebubbe might be the right word to describe what the Antigonish Review here has printed…save for the fact that it doesn't even please the mouth.

    2010 February 05 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2010

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