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Definition of Fungoes
1. fungo [n] - See also: fungo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fungoes
Literary usage of Fungoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820: Undertaken by Command of His by Johann Baptist von Spix, Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Hannibal Evans Lloyd (1824)
"... we asked in vain for a night's lodging, for the common people in Brazil do
not sit up late at night, except on occasion of their festivals {fungoes). ..."
2. Ade's Fables by George Ade (1914)
"Every deluded Boob who can bat up fungoes in his own Back Yard thinks he is
qualified to break into a Major League and line out Two-Baggers. ..."
3. Blue Jackets of 1918: Being the Story of the Work of the American Navy in by Willis John Abbot (1921)
"... talking to some one, and between whiles idly watching a lot of men on the
parade ground who were practising baseball and batting ' fungoes' about, when, ..."
4. Jack Winthrop of Old 15: A Story of School-life in a New-York City Public School by Abram W. Moynihan (1887)
"He could play " fungoes " before he knew the alphabet, and " Two on a base" found
no mercy at his hands. He could trundle hoop, fly kite, ..."
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