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- verb Obsolete spelling of
wail .
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Examples
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Surrprizzing hau yung 60′s age are…an 1960′s juz a widdel waile ago, nu?
dog startid it. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Diz streem of kitteh kyootees had me ROFL waile hed splorted.
Iz a pet taxi, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Dat wher kittehs git wached waile hoomans git pointy bits n skinz!
Drinkun fowntan - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Oh, well….waz naice waile it lazted, an ai had tu cum offde pedestal at some point!
omg yes! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Oh! I coulde waile mie kynge-coppe-decked mees [26],
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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My last left comfort is, my woes to weepe and waile.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Then gan she waile and weepe, to see that woefull stowre.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Therefore is it as great follie to weepe, we shall not live a hundred yeeres hence, as to waile we lived not a hundred yeeres agoe.
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At last Harry lost his patience: “Ye'd better tak 'it, sir, for there's nae waile [choice] o' wigs on Munrimmon Moor.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891
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Hairy lost his patience, and, anxious to get home, remonstrated with his master, “Ye'd better tak it, sir, for there's nae waile [161] o 'wigs on Munrimmon Moor.”
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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