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Word: dampish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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Usage:

...umbrella from my left to a verticle position and vice versa, as the wind changes, the trick is done. This little feat was suggested to me by a young Rhodes Scholar from Georgia; and though so many of the Rhodes men here are referred to in rather dampish terms, still this Southerner is so sensitive to cold weather to be of an original turn of mind. It is this same fellow who experimented with and electrical heating mattress and nearly set the college on fire...

Author: By Christopher Janus, Former STUDENT Vagabond, and Now AT Wadham college., S | Title: The Oxford Letter | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

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