tigrish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Nothing could be more fragrant, devil-me-carish, and to use a slang word, tigrish, than his whole air.
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Nothing could be more vagrant, devil-me-carish, and, to use a slang word, tigrish, than his whole air.
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The largest of the rivers which enter it, the Tigrish and the Nyuki, run north through a flat marshy country which extends south of the lake.
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She turned on me with what I can only describe as tigrish ferocity.
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The little lady, grown now to strong and stately maidenhood, had been ever something of the good genius, the better soul, to Lucius Verus, by the law of contraries, her somewhat cold and apathetic modesty acting as counterfoil to the young man's tigrish fervour.
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