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Definition of Shoo fly

1. Noun. Coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shoo Fly

Literary usage of Shoo fly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"In one issue the Herald facetiously likened Nast's entertainment to Dan Bryant's celebrated singing of " Shoo, Fly! " which suggested to Nast his only ..."

2. The American Catalogue of Books: (original and Reprints,) Published in the by James Kelly (1871)
"Irish shoo fly Songster. 1 fimo, pap., 10 cts. N. Y RP Brady..... 1870 Irish Widow's Son (The) ; or. The Pikeman of 1798. By C. O'Leary. ..."

3. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1870)
"shoo fly! This ludicrous yet popular song with the masses, ... It is well known that a fire engine bore the name of " shoo fly," in Savannah, as far back as ..."

4. On the Border with Crook by John Gregory Bourke (1892)
"... CROSSES ON THE ROADSIDE—PADRE EUSEBIO KINO—FIRST VIEW OF TUCSON—THE "shoo fly" RESTAURANT. OP the return march very little need be said. ..."

5. Mineral Law Digest Embracing a Digest of Decisions of the Courts and of the by Horace Fletcher Clark, Charles C. Heltman, Charles F. Consaul (1897)
"shoo fly Lode v. Mono Lode, 1 CLO 135. 417. Judgment for possession of a lode does not necessarily carry rights to surface ground. ..."

6. Diary of a Tour in America by Michael Bernard Buckley, Kate Buckley (1886)
"in hotels were dressed in a peculiar way and called in the bill of fare, "Shoo fly potatoes." Here is the whole song:— I feel, I feel, I feel, ..."

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