crawful
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2VERB + CRAWFUL
got
ADV.
quite
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noun
As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
1. Working conditions awful. 2. Wages unlawful. 3. Moses got his crawful.
The senator forever "working on" getting us in to see Sam—the President—while we waited and waited and waited, until, one day, a crawful, I decided to go out there and see Sam myself at the Palace ...
Enough to fill the craw.
Then came the battle with the rooks, who will do anything for a crawful of maize.
She gulped down a crawful of food and stalked off, trying to devise a way to outwit her pursuers.
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31. Working conditions awful. 2. Wages unlawful. 3. Moses got his crawful.
WiktionaryThe senator forever "working on" getting us in to see Sam—the President—while we waited and waited and waited, until, one day, a crawful, I decided to go out there and see Sam myself at the Palace ...
WiktionaryIt is this view of themselves and of white women that makes the preference of a black man for a white woman quite a crawful.
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