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Search phrase: upstart

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Henry VI Part 11H6 IV.vii.87I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,I thinke this vpstart is old Talbots Ghost,
King Edward IIIE3 III.i.113Or chase those straggling upstarts home again.Or chase those stragling vpstarts home againe,
Richard IIR2 II.iii.121To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?To vpstart Vnthrifts? Wherefore was I borne?

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jackanapesupstart, buffoon, monkey
start-upupstart, opportunist, climber

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upstartstart-up
upstartjackanapes

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
STARTPEOPLEupstart n
UPSTARTBASICsee START

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