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saw gourds

verb

Etymology

In reference to the sound made by sawing.

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • He set by the fire a chawin his tobacco and swapped lies with us untill bed time, and we put him in the surplus room and he sawed gourds so, it was after midnight before we got to sleep.
    • The fuse burnt down to the skin and went out, but Cudjo still continued to saw gourds, apparently in no wise incommoded by the burning of the fuse.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA