pure quill
English
Noun
- (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The real thing, the genuine article. [from 19th c.]
- 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
- “Have you sampled the pure quill, Tull?”
- 1991, Peter Bowen, Kelly Blue:
- “Damn,” she said, “he was the pure quill, wasn't he? Him and you and Pardee and McKinnick come here drunk as lords and sing hymns till you passed out.”
- 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
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