Lexicographical Neighbors of Onery
Literary usage of Onery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Counting-out Rhymes of Children: Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888)
"Pin, pon, musky don, Scribble, scrabble, twenty-one. USA 495. onery ... Variations ;—
Line I.— "onery, ..."
2. Games and Songs of American Children by William Wells Newell (1903)
"... for each game to have its own especial formula for "counting out," a practice
of which we have an example in No. 107. (l.) onery, uery, hickory, Ann, ..."
3. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"It is evident that several fragments go to make up the above. " onery ... marum,
Get you out you little old man. Norfolk. CE. x. 369. " onery ..."
4. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
"It was stuck on the " nigger's " flesh while he was asleep, and lighted.
onery (onari) : for extremely ordinary. " What onery looking chap is that? ..."
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