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Wee Willie Winkie choose

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[Ind] Kipling Wee Willie Winkie 63: Their one excuse is that they came again and did their best to finish the job in style. But for a time all their world knows that they were openly beaten, whipped, dumb-cowed, shaking and afraid.
at dumcow, v.
[Ind] Kipling ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ in Wee Willie Winkie (1889) 103: The Highlander [...] turning to a Gurkha, said, ‘Hya, Johnny!’.
at johnny, n.1
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