Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?
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Turn-up
Synonyms for "turn-up" (2 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
Translations
5 translations across 5 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- маншет noun (fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers)
Catalan
1 entries- gira noun (fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers)
Finnish
1 entries- housunkäänne noun (fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers)
Greek
1 entries- ρεβέρ noun (fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers)
Portuguese
1 entries- bainha noun (fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.
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I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.
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Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.
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