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#* {{RQ:Wodehouse Offing|chapter=XX|passage=“So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my '''tonsils''', I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”}}
#* {{RQ:Wodehouse Jeeves in the Offing|chapter=XX|passage=“So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my '''tonsils''', I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”}}


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# {{lb|en|nonstandard}} The [[uvula]].
# {{lb|en|nonstandard}} The [[uvula]].

Latest revision as of 07:08, 2 February 2024

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tonsils

  1. plural of tonsil
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      “So now everything's fine.” I uttered a hacking laugh. “No,” I said, in answer to a query from Aunt Dahlia. “I have not accidentally swallowed my tonsils, I was merely laughing hackingly. Ironical that the young blister should say that everything is fine, for at this very moment disaster stares us in the eyeball.”

Noun

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tonsils pl (plural only)

  1. (nonstandard) The uvula.

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