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pemey

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pemey • n • grease, cooking fat, oil, blubber, lard, liquid fat

Lexicon record # 2533 | Source reference(s): R237 FS(B211) JE51 YG269 OB(JPH361)
Semantic domains: food, drink, and cooking; aquatic mammals

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Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (4)

  1. Cho' ko me'repeene'm kue koweesh mehl pemey.
    Rub your stick with grease.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-022) (LA138-022, 1980)

  2. Cho' ko me'repeene'm mehl pemey.
    Coat it (rub it) with oil.

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    — Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-022) (LA138-022, 1980)

  3. Kue nepuy 'ue-'wers hr merner'skwery 'ue-koosee pemey kue 'we-luehl.
    Where they had pulled off the salmon skin their mouths were all grease.

    — Glenn Moore, Retelling of Robert Spott's "The Owl" (GM1, 2004)

  4. Kue nepuy 'ue-'wers ho merner'skwery 'ue-koosee pemey kue 'we-luehl.
    Where they had pulled off the salmon skin their mouths were all grease.

    — Robert Spott, "The Owl" (LA16-4, 1951)