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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1898
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BEAMFOO, adj. Full to overflowing, but Bnff.2 (1933) knows it only in sense of intoxicated [′bimfu]n.Sc. 1898 W.G. in E.D.D.:
She came hame wi' her mehl-pyock beamfoo.n.Sc. 1898 W.G. in E.D.D.:
Jist fill the bossie beamfoo o' behr mehl.
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