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FELLAH
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Irregular inflected forms: fellaheen , fellahin
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agricultural laborer in Arab countries
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fellah" is a kind of...):
peasant (one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers)
Context examples:
Why, young fellah, where HAVE you lived?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You'll smile, young fellah, but 'pon my word they might have been kinsmen.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No, young fellah my lad, there is no use deceiving yourself.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The more you knew of that country, young fellah, the more you would understand that anythin' was possible—ANYTHIN'!
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I say, young fellah, I hope you don't mind—what?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Where have you been, young fellah?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Things look a bit different from the latitude of London, young fellah my lad.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"It's up to you, young fellah, to name the lake," said he.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
