play pretty
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Noun
play pretty (plural play pretties)
- (Southern US) A toy.
- 2003, David Madden, edited by Dean Faulkner Wells, The New Great American Writers Cookbook, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 134:
- “Honey, did I ever tell you the story of the old mountain man who took the money his wife had saved for the children's Christmas play pretties and—Oh, I bet I've boiled that hen to death!”
- 2006, Sherry Austin, Where the Woodbine Twines: A Novel, The Overmountain Press, →ISBN, page 68:
- She might like to look at your pictures and your play pretties. ”
- 2015, Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia's Marvelous Makeover, Penguin, →ISBN, page 274:
- "I know how to scare him. My play pretties'll scare him so bad, he'll run right outta his britches." "Latisha, honey," I said, "we don't have time for play pretties.
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