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- adjective informal
Eye dialect spelling ofpretty .
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from GiantWhitetails wrote 19 weeks 5 days ago it seems to be workin purty good, i feel like im invisible. i havent come across any deer yet. it sure fools them squirrels. i already shish kabobed one that was in my food plot, my first squirrel with a bow.
is it dangerous to wear a ghille suit and smell like acorns at the same time? 2009
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Yes | No | Report from GiantWhitetails wrote 19 weeks 5 days ago it seems to be workin purty good, i feel like im invisible. i havent come across any deer yet. it sure fools them squirrels. i already shish kabobed one that was in my food plot, my first squirrel with a bow.
is it dangerous to wear a ghille suit and smell like acorns at the same time? 2009
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Ain't the prettiest thing on the rack, but like the old man said, "purty is as purty does."
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I have no desire to go up in one but they sure are purty from the ground. datingjesus
Gentle reader, and the rest of you sinners: « Dating Jesus 2009
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Ain't the prettiest thing on the rack, but like the old man said, "purty is as purty does."
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Charlie Bundrum was what women here used to call a purty man, a man with thick, sandy hair and blue eyes that looked like something you would see on a rich woman's bracelet.
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"He 'ed'n wot you may call a purty cheeld, es a, then?" asked Betsey.
The Birthright Joseph Hocking 1898
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Mary Ellen never was to say what you'd call a purty girl, but she always did have a face that would hold you ef you ever looked at it.
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"Well, they ain't what ye mout call purty, that's a fack," said the guard.
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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"Well, they ain't what ye mout call purty, that's a fack," said the guard.
Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887
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