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- abbreviation informal
conscientious objector
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Examples
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There is a tendency amongst patriots and pro-armed forces bloggers to see any opposition to Afghanistan as a bunch of conchy lefties whining about the brave boys and girls defending our country.
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There is a tendency amongst patriots and pro-armed forces bloggers to see any opposition to Afghanistan as a bunch of conchy lefties whining about the brave boys and girls defending our country.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Almost every week the boys caught a spy or pushed a conchy into the army, and during the rationing period EAT LESS BREAD was printed in large type on every page.
Boys' Weeklies 1940
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Almost every week the boys caught a spy or pushed a conchy into the army, and during the rationing period ‘EAT LESS BREAD’ was printed in large type on every page.
Collected Essays 1900
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My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion.
Sketchy Thoughts 2008
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My body, stiffened and full of aches from the hardness of my conchy sore and bitten by bedbugs and other insects, finds now no rest; my soul no longer tastes the sleep that brings on oblivion.
Sketchy Thoughts 2008
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Melibcea 2. 500 pprpurca 5. 1427 purppreai 2. 51 purpureufque coios conchy - li 6. 1072 purum I, 659. aera 4, 328 purumqne i.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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