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I lighted up my pipe and waited, and the story that Oti told me in atrocious bech-de-mer I here turn into proper English.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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I lighted up my pipe and waited, and the story that Oti told me in atrocious bech-de-mer I here turn into proper English.
"Yah! Yah! Yah!" 1911
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I lighted up my pipe and waited, and the story that Oti told me in atrocious bech-de-mer I here turn into proper English.
South Sea Tales Jack London 1896
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He had been twenty-eight years in Melanesia, ranging from German New Guinea to the German Solomons, and so thoroughly had he become identified with that portion of the world, that he habitually spoke in that bastard lingo called "bech-de-mer."
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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German Solomons, and so thoroughly had he become identified with that portion of the world, that he habitually spoke in that bastard lingo called "bech-de-mer."
"Yah! Yah! Yah!" 1911
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He had been twenty-eight years in Melanesia, ranging from German New Guinea to the German Solomons, and so thoroughly had he become identified with that portion of the world, that he habitually spoke in that bastard lingo called "bech-de-mer."
South Sea Tales Jack London 1896
hernesheir commented on the word bech-de-mer
Vanuatu pidgin, for one.
February 1, 2013
bilby commented on the word bech-de-mer
See also trepang.
February 1, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word bech-de-mer
bêche-de-mer
February 2, 2013