Definitions

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  • noun a genus of Siphonaptera

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Examples

  • This time around its a warm welcome back to meso. after his highly acclaimed release "tunga" back at #242, I asked him if he would like to release another ep on kahvi and here is the response.

    Kahvi Collective News (XML) 2008

  • According to the publisher's blurb, Swedish poet Johan Jönson's 800-page Efter arbetschema 2008, his twelfth volume of verse, focuses on the reality of work: "dels försörjningsarbetet i vården eller i den tunga industrin, dels ett arbete med att förstå och besvärja 'världsfabriken'."

    Work poems David McDuff 2010

  • According to the publisher's blurb, Swedish poet Johan Jönson's 800-page Efter arbetschema 2008, his twelfth volume of verse, focuses on the reality of work: "dels försörjningsarbetet i vården eller i den tunga industrin, dels ett arbete med att förstå och besvärja 'världsfabriken'."

    Archive 2010-09-01 David McDuff 2010

  • Frågan är om den klarar de tunga vinterjackorna?

    Padlock Hanger 2007

  • Let manner and matter of this for these our sporting times be cloaked up in the language of blushfed porporates that an Anglican ordinal, not reading his own rude dunsky tunga, may ever behold the brand of scarlet on the brow of her of Babylon and feel not the pink one in his own damned cheek.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Dönsk tunga, -- that in which were written the Eddas and Skálda, the {106}

    Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

  • Bull Tail, (Tah-tunga-sana,) who had had hitherto remained silent, now arose and addressed his companions:

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • The new comer proved Arketcheta-waka, (Medicine Soldier,) a brother of Bello-tunga, the brave referred to on a former occasion.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • A brave, named Bello-tunga, (Big Eagle,) received a blow over the head from a half crazed drunken trader, which came very near terminating in serious consequences.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • (Tah-tunga-sana,) who was distinguished in attire from all his fellows by the addition of a hair-seal cap and a frock-coat, which he had received as presents from the whites.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

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