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colleen (4681 words)
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Fox, by skullfaced
Tuesday words, by slumry
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With this I left him, and skulked out of the town, not paying my respects tomy other benefactors; but giving them a thousand blessings from my heart.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 1 ch. 13
Boulder-footed? I love it! Oh, ha, ha, ha!
I don't know how anybody/anycreature could sneak around with a word as clumsy and boulder-footed as this. Besides, it resembles skunk so much that I think you'd smell a skulk from half a mile away.
You had entrails in your college dining hall?
Whenever I hear this word, I think of some college friends who tickled themselves to death by uttering the following sentence (context not important): "He can't very well skulk out of the dining hall, entrails in tow!"
A group of foxes