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"ref": "1909, Robert W. Service, “The Song of the Mouth-Organ”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto: William Briggs, page 103",
"text": "I voice the weary, smeary ones of earth,\nThe helots of the sea and of the soil.",
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"ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, chapter 7, in Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 41",
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"ref": "1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 5, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Random House, published 2009, page 132",
"text": "The letters were executed clumsily, with a smeary black kindergarten exuberance.",
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"text": "[…] stamped again and again in smeary red ink that looked like blood, was one word: CANCEL.",
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"ref": "1582, Richard Stanyhurst, transl., Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis, Leiden: John Pates, dedicatory epistle",
"text": "And are there not diuerse skauingers of draftye poëtrye in this oure age, that bast theyre papers wyth smearie larde sauoring al too geather of thee frying pan?",
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"text": "1896, W. S. Gilbert, The Grand Duke, Act I, in The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, New York: The Modern Library, 1936, p. 675,\nWhen your lips are all smeary—like tallow,\nAnd your tongue is decidedly yallow,\nWith a pint of warm oil in your swallow,\nAnd a pound of tin-tacks in your chest"
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}
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"Having a consistency like grease; covered with such a substance."
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"word": "smeary"
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