cohuen.
/kɔɪ/ An unruly crowd; a mob.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous > disorderly
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cohue1850
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scrimmage1968
1850 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: Life in London (1884) II. xviii. 47 The cohue of objects and persons his life was cast amidst, did not increase my hopes of a great result.
a1881 T. Carlyle Let. in Q. Rev. (1903) July 134 It was in this way that I as good as missed Mallet du Pan, confounding him with the general cohue.
1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness xiv. 314 The cohue seethes and roars around the farm.
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