farmer blow
n.— «“I was in 4-H and FFA, a total farm girl. That helped in the Army, kind of a roughneck thing,” she says and launches into a description about a friend in her military unit, “the prissiest thing you’d ever want to see.” “I taught her how to spit, do the farmer blow,” she says and mimics blowing her nose with her fingers.» —“Injuries don’t faze tough-as-metal South Dakotan” by Peter Harriman Associated Press Feb. 13, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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