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[UK] Oriental Herald Nov. 347: ‘Yes, mem, I very well know, he come very often to tell my missis what news he hear of mem and Miss Owen’.
at mem, n.
[UK] Oriental Herald Sept. 482: All this done in a style of passion and sentimentality, which we little expected from a member of the Juwab club of disappointed suitors.
at Juwab Club (n.) under juwab, n.
[UK] R. Neave ‘Syud Kurrum Ally’ in Parbury’s Oriental Herald III 350: It is [...] celebrated for [...] the fertility of the soil in its vicinity, in which potatoes, sugar-cane, and indigo, are produced with prolific prodigality, wherever the collector has not sumjaowed the owner into cultivating the poppy.
at sumjao, v.
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