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"ref": "1848, Charles Kingsley, Yeasy",
"text": "\"Honoria, take your feet off my dress. Argemone, my child, I hope you spent a pleasant evening?\"\nArgemone answered by some tossy commonplace.",
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"Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud, contemptuous, affectedly indifferent."
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"(dated) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud, contemptuous, affectedly indifferent."
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