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Word: raspy

Definition: making a harsh noise; grating; harsh


Sentences Containing 'raspy'

I was getting sort of used to the widow's ways, too, and they warn't so raspy on me.
They stood there a-thinking and scratching their heads a minute, and the duke he bust into a kind of a little raspy chuckle, and says: "It does beat all how neat the niggers played their hand.

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