Lexicographical Neighbors of Plimming
Literary usage of Plimming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"A pig must not be killed when the moon is waning, or the bacon will ' boil out,'
that is, it will shrink in boiling instead of ' plimming up' (or becoming ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"For the most part, he^sat there, irresolute, plimming his untried wings, and half
opening them tentatively from time to time, as if wondering to himself how ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"For the most part, he sat there, irresolute, plimming his untried wings, and half
opening them tentatively from time to time, as if wondering to himself how ..."
4. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in S. E. Worcestershire, Together with by Jesse Salisbury (1894)
"A pig must not be killed when the moon is waning, or the bacon will ' boil out,'
that is, it will shrink in boiling instead of ' plimming up' (or becoming ..."
5. A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words by Edith L. Chamberlain, Thomas Hallam (1882)
"A pig must not be killed when the moon is waning, or the bacon will ' boil out,'
that is, it will shrink in boiling instead of ' plimming up' (or becoming ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"A pig must not be killed when the moon is waning, or the bacon will ' boil out,'
that is, it will shrink in boiling instead of ' plimming up' (or becoming ..."
7. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"For the most part, he^sat there, irresolute, plimming his untried wings, and half
opening them tentatively from time to time, as if wondering to himself how ..."
8. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"For the most part, he sat there, irresolute, plimming his untried wings, and half
opening them tentatively from time to time, as if wondering to himself how ..."
9. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in S. E. Worcestershire, Together with by Jesse Salisbury (1894)
"A pig must not be killed when the moon is waning, or the bacon will ' boil out,'
that is, it will shrink in boiling instead of ' plimming up' (or becoming ..."
10. A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words by Edith L. Chamberlain, Thomas Hallam (1882)
"A pig must not be killed when the moon is waning, or the bacon will ' boil out,'
that is, it will shrink in boiling instead of ' plimming up' (or becoming ..."
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