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Definition of Buyable
1. buy [adj] - See also: buy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buyable
Literary usage of Buyable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"Joy is buyable—by forsaking all that a man 35 hath. Kuskin. Joy is like the ague ;
one good day between two bad ones. Dan. Pr. Joy is more divine than ..."
2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1874)
"buyable—literally enough—the freehold Elysian field at that price, but not a doit
cheaper; and I believe, at this moment, the reason my voice has an ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"... an' buyable an' all," said by a man selling ready-made clothes at Brigg Market,
1876. EYES BIGGER THAN BELLY.—A person is said to have his " eyes bigger ..."