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pearlies
noun- the teeth UK, 1914
A shortened form of PEARLY WHITES- I see beginnings of bad congestion at the corners of her pearlies which would lead to decay[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 69, 1958
- Since the bathroom was down the hall, Taggarty (now clothed provocatively in pale green babydolls) stood guard outside the door as Vijay and I leaned over the grungy sinks and brushed our pearlies. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 193, 1993
- — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 186, 2002
- a chronic shaking of the bowing arm suffered by violinists UK, 1974
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 266, 1998
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