Lexicographical Neighbors of Possumed
Literary usage of Possumed
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)
"I said nothin, but possumed too a little.—' The Kentuckian in NY,' i. 64.
1841 There's no chance to play ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1850)
"Admirable—just like a fox—he fairly possumed it ; and when he came too, he broke
for his office like a black snake before a prairie fire. ..."
3. A California Tramp and Later Footprints: Or, Life on the Plains and in the by Thaddeus Stevens Kenderdine (1888)
"Dick, I am sorry to say, often "possumed," when our interlocutor would get so
excited that " Scottie" or I was fain to answer by proxy for the derelict Dick ..."
4. Sermons and Addresses on Secret Societies by Lebbeus Armstrong (1882)
"Then, too, in the expressive cant phrase of the West, Masonry "possumed."
feigned dead; and so was left to return to life. We have learned something by that ..."
5. The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer, Moffat, Yard and Company (1910)
"Only winged him an' he possumed on me. Stuck his knife inter me but she glanced
on a rib. He's daid now." His voice was unemotional but his face was ..."
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