Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hydrophobia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
hydrophobia .
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- noun Archaic form of
hydrophobia .
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Examples
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As a parting shot Shorty yells to the Mistake of Creation, "Hope a skunk bites you and you get howlin 'hydrophoby."
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” 2008
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Folks gets hydrophoby from manbite sometimes, don't they?
JUST MEAT 2010
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Folks gets hydrophoby from manbite sometimes, don't they?
Just Meat 1911
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Folks get hydrophoby from man-bite sometimes, don't they?
"Just Meat" 1907
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If ever I lift hand to lick you, jes 'bite me and give me hydrophoby.
His Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1907
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"Boys he couldn't abear," pursued the other, in tones of tender reminiscence; "the mere sight of a boarding-school of 'em out for a walk would give him hydrophoby almost."
Sea Urchins 1903
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"Boys he couldn't abear," pursued the other, in tones of tender reminiscence; "the mere sight of a boarding-school of 'em out for a walk would give him hydrophoby almost."
More Cargoes 1897 1903
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"Hope a skunk bites you an 'you get howlin' hydrophoby," were the terms of Shorty's farewell.
Smoke Bellew Jack London 1896
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But no; after the procrastinatin 'fashion of real law, they permits the villain -- who's no more use on the surface of Arizona that a-way than one of them hydrophoby polecats whose bite is death -- to get a law sharp to plead an' call for a show-down before a jedge an 'jury.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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Skelly's phwere he died in tin days 'toime av hydrophoby, shnarlin' an 'bitin' at folks till they had to chain um in th 'shtoreroom. "
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