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sooner
noun- a person or thing which fails to perform AUSTRALIA, 1892
Because “they would sooner do nothing than something”. - This was an old sooner of an engine. She’d had it. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 117, 1969
- a mixed-breed dog BARBADOS
Because, Collymore writes, “He’d sooner bark than bite”. - — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 100, 1965
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