puffing Billy

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Noun

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puffing Billy

  1. (slang, obsolete) A steam locomotive engine.
    • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 148:
      The temple, halfway up the Matheran hills, was approached by a 'puffing billy' train on a zigzag railway from Neral, two miles from Bombay.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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