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"So unless you know some unbelievably dickish vegetarians," no the smugness thing is more pussyish than dickish, like your huffy reaction using all big words.
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But the girls remembered a governess they had once witnessed whose hair was brief as any boy's, so they put a large hat, with a very tight elastic behind, on to Oswald's head, just as it was, and then with a tickly, pussyish, featherish thing round his neck, hanging wobblily down in long ends, he looked more young-lady-like than he will ever feel.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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But the girls remembered a governess they had once witnessed whose hair was brief as any boy's, so they put a large hat, with a very tight elastic behind, on to Oswald's head, just as it was, and then with a tickly, pussyish, featherish thing round his neck, hanging wobblily down in long ends, he looked more young-lady-like than he will ever feel.
New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891
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