junque
n.— «Some pote, evidently, is learning the gentle art of typewriting, for we find this in the mail: Take 4 SPools & aN olD Tin Kann,/’N th’ HanDle offa FryIng PAnn;/IO lbs of Junque FrUm Nissinow,/PutT iN Sum GaSS, & leT hEr go!» —“So They Say” Boston Daily Globe (Massachusetts) June 29, 1916. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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