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Examples
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Hmmmm, I solds mah liddle one-lunger Suzuki long ago, wen hip went south for da winter…how-sum-ever, in da beuaty dat iz ICHC, I noes haz pain, sew I dream one up, and goez wiht yu!
lolcat twin powers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Goldbug as though it had been stung, and a one-lunger stamp-mill chugged where the camp had dreamed of forty.
The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916
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Homeburg has twenty-five hundred people and one hundred machines, counting Sim Askinson's old one-lunger and Red Nolan's refined corn sheller, which he built out of the bone-yard back of Gayley's garage.
Homeburg Memories George Fitch 1896
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This was twenty year ago, and in those days I knowed a one-lunger in Yuma named Clarence.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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"I knew a one-lunger once," Bunt continued, as he uncorked the bottle,
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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Hardie, an 'I ain't no effete an' digenerate one-lunger myself.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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(he thought I was a one-lunger, too); 'ain't ye ashamed -- befoulin' your mouths, and disturbin 'the peace along of a quiet Sunday mornin', an 'you-alls waist over in your graves?
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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"Then all at once they hears Peg-leg beller from where's he layin 'on the lounge (they ain't figured on his bein' so contiguous), and he gives it to be understood, does Peg-leg, as how the next one-lunger that indulges in whatsoever profanity will lose his voice abrupt.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
chained_bear commented on the word one-lunger
"boat with a single-cylinder engine." —Dictionary of Newfoundland English
January 27, 2009
john commented on the word one-lunger
I've heard this term used in Maine, where I've also heard actual one-lungers in use. They have a distinct staccato sound.
January 27, 2009