Suffolk punch

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noun

a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs

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Word Origin for Suffolk punch

C18: from dialect punch squat, short and thick

Words nearby Suffolk punch

sufflate, suffocate, suffocation, suffocative goiter, Suffolk, Suffolk punch, Suffr., suffragan, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist

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How to use Suffolk punch in a sentence

Like Mike Tyson says, you have a great fight plan until you come out and take the first punch.
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“Ordinarily, you see punch-counterpunch-punch,” as the attacked party tries to fend off the intruder, the former official said.
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“You might as well punch yourself in the face,” he says when asked if he read about any of the controversy.
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And while all he says he has spoken to still believe the interrogations saved lives, he said the report was a punch in the gut.
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A squad soon arrived to take him away, and I saw the sergeant punch him in the face even though he went quietly.
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Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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Never had Punch secured the telling of that tale with so little opposition.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
But Punch was five; and he knew that going to England would be much nicer than a trip to Nassick.
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Punch scratched himself in his sleep, and Judy moaned a little.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
At the end of the first day Punch demanded to be set down in England, which he was certain must be close at hand.
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