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n. - Something that causes a sudden motion.

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Usage examples (19)
  • 'Thou jolter-head!' muttered the Anglian to himself; then with a jog to
  • “Hobgoblin,” answered the boy readily; “but for all that, I would rather have my own ugly viznomy than any of their jolter-heads, that have no more brains in them than a...
  • Genie is a misshapen dwarf, with a huge jolter-head like that of
  • We must have been jolter-headed geniuses not to have anticipated M. 's reply.
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