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good woman
3. trans. To address as ‘woman’ (see woman n. 5). Cf.good woman v. Now rare.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 269 She call'd her another time Fat-face, and woman'd her most violently.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 399 Whom call you woman? Dare to woman me!
1835 Fraser's Mag. July 18/1 ‘Woman! Dinna woman me, Miss McKimp,’ said the fish-lady.
1904 E. Jepson Admirable Tinker xiii. 234 ‘Woman, you're mad!’ said McNeill, rising with a scared face. ‘Don't you woman me, you low Scotchman!’
1947 K. M. Kingsbury Shanty Paradise vii. 75 The son, in his baby days, had taken it up like a lisping echo and had ‘womaned’ me this and ‘womaned’ me that all around the place.
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Dry rot
The smell...was fresh and bitter and at the same time nauseating.
Hilda wondered if it were not caused by some extremely recherché form of
dry rot.
Iris Murdoch, Fairly Honorable Defeat
Iris Murdoch, Fairly Honorable Defeat
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