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barnyard

noun as in farmyard

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One by one, they walked out the side door, across the muddy barnyard, and into the parlor for a quick milking before heading down to the pasture.

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Instead, he draws from the writer’s letters and diaries, as well as the longer-form works like the barnyard political allegory “Animal Farm” and the dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

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I learned the many shades of stink — from barnyard funk to gym sock to overripe fruit — and how to spot the difference.

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Speaking from the stage at a 1995 concert in Memphis, Jackson described her music as “anywhere from a barnyard disaster to classical.”

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Trouble and the rest of the herd spent their days roaming three canyons and being tended to by staff in the animal barnyard.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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