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Definition of Sapheads
1. saphead [n] - See also: saphead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapheads
Literary usage of Sapheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)," by Ian Hay (1916)
"These were suffering cruelly, for the German artillery had the range to a nicety,
and convenient sapheads gave the German bombers easy access to their ..."
2. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"I am opposing and shall continue to oppose any reorganization of the Army by
tessellated military satraps on the one hand and gilded society sapheads on the ..."
3. Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-slaves by Austa Malinda French (1862)
"You strut, at great expense! do it well, and so as to strike Northern sapheads,
and steel hearts. " Then you, so weak, surely could do nothing, or no work, ..."
4. Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Huck Finn by Mark Twain (2001)
"By and by Tom fetched the balloon to a standstill, and says— 'Wow get up and
look, you sapheads." We done it, and there was the sure-enough water right ..."
5. The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)," by Ian Hay (1916)
"These were suffering cruelly, for the German artillery had the range to a nicety,
and convenient sapheads gave the German bombers easy access to their ..."
6. From Harrison to Harding: A Personal Narrative, Covering a Third of a by Arthur Wallace Dunn (1922)
"I am opposing and shall continue to oppose any reorganization of the Army by
tessellated military satraps on the one hand and gilded society sapheads on the ..."
7. Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-slaves by Austa Malinda French (1862)
"You strut, at great expense! do it well, and so as to strike Northern sapheads,
and steel hearts. " Then you, so weak, surely could do nothing, or no work, ..."
8. Tom Sawyer Abroad: By Huck Finn by Mark Twain (2001)
"By and by Tom fetched the balloon to a standstill, and says— 'Wow get up and
look, you sapheads." We done it, and there was the sure-enough water right ..."
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