suck-egg

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Ever since Mary had a little lamb I've thought kindly of sheep, and I am perfectly willin 'to a law that will exterminate all hounds and suck-egg pups and yeller dogs and bench-leg fices.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903
Well, I'll be a suck-egg mule,'' the broadcaster Red Barber cries as the winning run crosses the plate.

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