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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ouse .
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Examples
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"Ay, lad, an 'I knows lawyer Lockhart too," said Trumps, with a peculiar look; "him that owns the 'ouses' ereabouts, an 'draws the rents --"
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Hence it is possible for a little bloke-ish conversation at the till:Me: "Blowin' up the 'ouses of Parliament then?"
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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August 28, 2009 at 10:45 am nice liddol beetle bugs orinj kitteh babehs purple people eater rhino-sauce-er-ouses s..
One garden down… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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My entrance into the Exeter messroom was greeted with a west country "Strangggerrr!" stranger "They comes 'ere, they takes our jobs,' ouses an 'women ..." to which I retorted "Actually, I brought my own woman because yours are just too pig ugly."
No Blacks Allowed.....(?) Newmania 2007
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With her issavan essavans and her patterjackmartins about all them inns and ouses.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I said that, Annie Chapman, what lives in the doss -ouses over to Flower and Dean Street, same as me.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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The bord will contribute towards making the ouses affordable for the potential home-owners.
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Is the little 'ouses all in' eaps -- the same as might be mine.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 Various
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Well, no, not to say searched; she wasn't used to searchin 'people's' ouses for skelintons every night.
Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923
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I 'ave taken a number of orders at the nicest' ouses along
Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923
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