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Brewer's: Horse-play
Rough play.
Similarly hoarse, having a rough voice from inflammation of the throat; gorse, a rough, prickly plant; goose-berry, a rough berry; goose-grass, the grass whose leaves are rough with hair, etc.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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