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sooner (so̵̅o̅nər)

noun

  1. a person occupying homestead land, as formerly in the western U.S., before the authorized time for doing so, thus gaining an unfair advantage in choice of location
  2. Informal a person born or living in Oklahoma

Etymology: < compar. of soon

sooner Quotes

   A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life, and pleasure and pain, And horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Then the lesser life shall be as the greater, And the lover of life shall join the hater, And the one thing cometh sooner or later, And no one knoweth the loss or gain.

—Gordon, Adam Lindsay

   I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.

—Jeffers, (John) Robinson

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