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"etymology_text": "Possibly from laundry, or lily (compare snow (“laundry”) as in snow-rig). Attested as early as c.1661.",
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"Wet or drying linen."
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"(UK, slang, archaic) Wet or drying linen."
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"A shirt."
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) A shirt."
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"A child."
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"(slang, obsolete) A child."
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"Wet or drying linen."
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"(UK, slang, archaic) Wet or drying linen."
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"A shirt."
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"(UK, slang, obsolete) A shirt."
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"word": "queer lully"
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