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Word: kumquat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

Soupy Sales is a short-haired fellow with a kumquat nose, a moron-the-merrier expression, a crushed stovepipe hat, buttoned collar and huge bow tie. His métier is sick slapstick. He gets laughs by biting off a neighbor's hangnail or hitting an old lady with a custard pie-not in the face, but up under her arm, as if the pie were a small bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Prime-Time Pie Thrower | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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