nunnywatch

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noun

A fuss; a mess.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounnunnywatch (plural nunnywatches)

plural nunnywatches

  1. UKdialectalobsoleterareA fuss; a mess.

    What a nunnywatch we were in, to be sure, when we heard they weren’t married.

    1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 126
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APA

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Chicago

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