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saws gourds

saws gourds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of saw gourds.

Meaning of saw gourds

Verb

saw gourds (third-person singular simple present saws gourds, present participle sawing gourds, simple past sawed gourds, past participle sawed gourds or sawn gourds)

  1. (intransitive, chiefly late-19th-century US slang) To snore very loudly.
    • I thought of these things with a tendency to philosophize, but Zeno himself would have gone to sleep after such a day as I had spent. In five minutes, thoughtless and philosophers, we were all “sawing gourds” together in the land of Nod.1870, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, chapter II, in The Heart of the Continent, page 91

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What is saws gourds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Saws gourds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of saw gourds.

Words near saws gourds in the dictionary

  1. sawpits
  2. sawqui
  3. Sawrey
  4. Sawreys
  5. saws
  6. saws gourds
  7. saws logs
  8. saws off
  9. saws off the branch one is sitting on
  10. saws the baby in half
  11. saws wood

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