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shoo fly

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shoo⋅fly

[shoo-flahy]
–noun, plural -flies.
a child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.

Origin:
1860–65, Americanism; shoo + fly 2
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shoo fly

noun
coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry [syn: apple of Peru
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