pure quill

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Noun

pure quill

  1. (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) The real thing, the genuine article.
    • 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
      “Have you sampled the pure quill, Tull?”
    • 1991, Peter Bowen, Kelly Blue:
      “Damn,” she said, “he was the pure quill, wasn't he? Him and you and Pardee and McKinnick come here drunk as lords and sing hymns till you passed out.”