"Shaven"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Clean-shaved," OTOH, sounds crazy..

JL

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:35 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  shaven : shaved. Every once in a while I?ll get all shaven & shorn for
> something important, like the preacher who married the maiden all forlorn,
> who milked the cow with the crumpled horn, that kicked the dog, that chased
> the cat, that killed the rat, that ate the malt, that lay in the house of
> pancakes.
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