Definitions

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  • adjective soaked in or smelling of turpentine
  • adjective heavily diluted with turpentine

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Examples

  • And to make no count of the beadin 'I threw in, whenever it were a straightforrard job, and the turpsy knots, and the clogging of the teeth -- 'tis a bad bit to swallow, when the mill is strown. "

    Erema — My Father's Sin 1862

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