Lexicographical Neighbors of Offput
Literary usage of Offput
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"The Bible's grand at hame, but that's no what a man gangs to the kirk for ; that,
and so mony prayers—it's naething but a great offput of time. ..."
2. Richard Croker by Alfred Henry Lewis (1901)
"They will have origin among Tammany's foes—not the safest historians—and be
commonly the offput of some Grimm of the Mugwumps, or some Hans Christian ..."
3. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1896)
"The population of Coney Island varies in a day from 10000 to 100000, and the
offput of waste garbage and sewage involved in the entertainment and feeding of ..."
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