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Word: mcflimsey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

...trifle "over-confident," and needs to "brace up," "to use the polished rhetoric of Yale." The finances of the Navy seem to need "bracing up" too. The "Fourth Annual Navy Ball" occurred the other night, but comparatively few ladies were present, a number being kept away by "Miss Flora McFlimsey's reasons," and some others possibly being afraid to leave their rooms for fear of "stacking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

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