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Definition of Lummoxes
1. lummox [n] - See also: lummox
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lummoxes
Literary usage of Lummoxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1871 I would trust [the Roman cart-horse] to keep on pulling,- long after your
mere lummoxes had fallen in their shafts- —Old and New, June (De Vere). ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... weigh over a thousand or eleven hundred pounds, but I would trust him to keep
on pulling long after your mere lummoxes had fallen in their shafts. ..."
3. Psychology as Applied to Education by Peter Magnus Magnusson (1913)
"We all are lunkheads — don't git mad — an' lummoxes an' gawks; But us poor chaps
who know we be — we walk in humble walks. So I say to all good lunkheads, ..."
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