10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAFFY»
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Born to Annoy - Book One
The draffy would then be ordered to correct the drawing, a new print would be
issued and eventually make its way back to Albert. In the meantime a lot of time
would have been lost, a whole array of control panels held up, and the draffy
would ...
2
A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
DRAFFY. Coarse and bad. From sediment of liquor. — Of a lover, The dregs and
drajfy part, disgrace and jealousy. B. If Fl. Iilund Princeu, iii. last sc. Qu. Whether
for disgrace we should not read distrust '* DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS'S, SHIP.
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Lakeland words: a collection of dialect words and phrases as ...
DRABBLE, DRABBLED— Jarbled wi' watter an' muck. DRAFF — Brewers' grains,
given ta t' kye. Ah's as wet as draff- DRAFFY — Exhausted ; neea list fer nowt.
Ah's as draffy as. can be, an sweet wi' nowt. URATE — A slow mack o' talk er ...
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The Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and ...
Draflish, Draffy, adj. draff Uh, draffy, sale, vilain, e. Draft. See Draught, Drag, в.
draff, crochet, harpon, m. ; drague, f. —, va. trainer, draguer; ( — for oysters)
pécher des huîtres. [drague, f. Drag-net, в. dräg'n't, tramail, chalón, т.; Dragon, ...
Alexander Spiers, Gabriel Surenne, 1890
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When the Games Had Ended, Her Only Chance Had Just Began.
Beside, Frankie and Jake, of course, General and Draffy will be there. Because, it
will be held down on the beach in front of the stable in three days. I thought that
we would go in the first thing in the morning to get the license and blood tests.
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Framing 'India': The Colonial Imaginary in Early Modern Culture
When Quisara finally sees through Ruy Dias's bluster, she contrasts him with
Armusia and finally rejects the Portuguese commander for . . . being nothing but a
sound, a shape, The meere signe of a Souldier — of a Lover The dregs and
draffy ...
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A glossary; or, Collection of words ... which have been ...
IV. iv. 2. And holds up snout, like pig that comes from draff. Minor for Aj agist, p.
516. Spelt also draugh : When as the cullian, and the viler clown, That like the
swine on draugh sets his desire. Drayt . Eel. 8 p. 1424. Draffy. Coarse and bad.
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
The dregs and draffy part, disgrace and jealousie, I scorn thee, and contemn thee
. Fletcher, Island Princess, iv. 1. draft1, draught1 (draft), n. and a. [This word has
changed in pron. from draught (ME. and mod. Sc. pron. driicht) to draft (pron.
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, L 286. draffy (draf 'i), a. [< draff + -y1. Cf. equiv. draftyV,
draughty?.] Like draff; waste ; worthless. The dregs and draffy part, disgrace and
jealonsie, I scorn thee, and contemn thee. . Fletcher, Island Princess, iv. 1. draft1
...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
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The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
286. draffy (draf'i), a. [< draff + -y1. Cf. equiv. drafty'2, draughty2.] Like draff; waste;
worthless. The dregs and draffy part, disgrace and jealousie, I scorn thee, and
contemn thee. Fletcher, Island Princess, It. 1. draft1, draught1 (draft), n. and a.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
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