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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
tafia .
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Examples
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I don;t like either Lewis or Andrews, who seem to me to be ineffective and hypocritical members of a taffia, who hate other parties more than they actually stand for anythign themselves, but only a fool would suggest they're in politics for personal financial enrichment.
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BTW, I've added 3 new links to my blogroll: Bill, Akatsuki, and taffia don I already mentioned.
Archive 2005-06-01 Garry 2005
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BTW, I've added 3 new links to my blogroll: Bill, Akatsuki, and taffia don I already mentioned.
Utterly Useless Devices: No. 1 Garry 2005
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They wanted forty, but at last took the thirty-five; and after getting three parts drunk upon taffia, which they asked for to wet the bargain as they said, they mounted two upon each of the remaining horses and rode away.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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Some of their goods were taken by a party of Indians they met, but some French traders whom they likewise encountered, treated them well and gave them salt, flour, tobacco, and taffia, the last being especially prized, as they had had no spirits for a year.
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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Vincennes were supplied with powder, lead, sugar, flour, and, above all, hogsheads of taffia, of which they drank an inordinate quantity.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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One of them boiled the juice of the cane into syrup, and the other had set up a distillery, in which he made indifferent taffia.
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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There can only be two fundamental problems from what i can see at the club, the first is either the players cant or wont respond the Hughes and the taffia, the second of which i think is the major problem, Mark Hughes even though i've been banging on about this for some time now, is tactically clueless and out of his depth.
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