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punkin-lily

punkin-lily
 n.— «Some of those Eastern punkin-lilies now, those goody-goody fellows, if they’d ever get throwed off, you’d never hear the last of it. He didn’t care a bit. If he got throwed off, he’d get right on again.» —“Diversions of the Round-Up” Youth’s Companion Apr. 6, 1922. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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