A multi use exclaimation.
> Comes from immigrants from Scandinavia during the early part of the 20th century. If you are surprised you say "Uff da", if you are disgusted you say "Uff da", over worked? "Uff da"

Yussouf was a sheik. He was sitting at the door of his dent in the desert. It was night. Nothing was visible in the desert. The only light was the light that came from the starts in the sky. They were twinkling in the sky. The sheik was sad at heart.

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I love eating at all-you-can-eat buffets. It doesn't matter what kind of food it is, I'm up for it. Last week, I went to a high-end seafood buffet with my friends. We walked in and the hostess seated us at a table. She asked if we wanted to order any

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学英语单词
-bloody-
abstract algebraic variety
Addison's planes
Adinandra drakeana
al bardi
alkanesulfonamide
alternataly-pinnate
AMIChemE, A.M.I. Chem.E.
angle of amplitude
antilabor legislation
be carried out feet foremost
be in a fume
bolo ties
cable-end
cacao-sheel butter
Castanopsis subacuminata
celebs
centred at
chaplygin-Karma-Tsien relation
cinnamomifolia
climatometer
coffea libericas
Comarch
conops (conops) nubeculosus
critical success factor
desmethylangolensin
dial pulsing
effects of integration
eight-games
encipherments
enkidus
ephemeral fever (three-day sickness)
fast Fourier transform
flowchart template
flying lead
for one's liking
forward time difference
frock
fuel control handle
fundamental transposition interval
fussocky
G-spin
g.c.s.e.
geo-basin
graduate engineer
heat-flow measurement
hedonic price
HHQ
increase one's pace
ion-solid interaction
judicial affairs
Karrooite
like-impinging injector element
longitudinal research
Merced River
midshipman fish
mistreading
mixed astrocyte
network of conductors
Osorase
oxygenerator
ping-pong
piperacillins
plain bulb
pneumoencephalography
poppet interlock
pressed distillate
psycho-babble
pubovesicalis
radiation mode
radio communication guard radio guard
reefous
rental building
resequences
respondent superior
Retzius' foramen
ryuichis
sabellids
scale hopper
sheffs
special event
special wagon
strain-gauge sting
straitness
sub rosa
suction pipe bracket
tailorhood
tank anchor
tearstains
tetraribonucleotides
theleplasty
theoretical system
theoretically dry
title of invention
topographic vortex
topping boom
transfer resistivity
triumpher
versers
white-collar job
Widal's test
wireworkers