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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1929
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RIMMAN, adj. Used as an intensive = great, big, complete. [′rɪmən]Ork. 1929 Marw.:
“A rimman fuil”; “a rimman pizzlo”, a very bad entanglement (on thread, &c.).
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