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Oaf Formerly Adopting An Owenesque Poetic Device

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noun

• the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words

32%4Oaf
noun

• a compact mass

• an awkward stupid person

32%6 Clumsy oaf
noun

• a disreputable or clumsy man

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