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Word: daown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...hands are plainly busy elsewhere ("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so weak"), pushes her toward the brink by the pigpen, and apparently ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that he take a nap ("Yew c'd curl up and let the slats daown"). Later, when the heroine murmurs "I feel cool and rested, rested and cool for the first time in my life," it may strike some moviegoers that the language of Tennessee Williams, no less than his subject matter, often seems to have been borrowed from one of the more carelessly written pornographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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