abbe | (noun) a French abbot | - |
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abbess | (noun) the superior of a group of nuns | Synonyms: mother superior, prioress |
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abbey | (noun) a monastery ruled by an abbot | - |
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(noun) a convent ruled by an abbess | - |
(noun) a church associated with a monastery or convent | - |
blabber | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, informer, rat, squealer |
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blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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(noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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bobber | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobfloat, cork |
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clabber | (noun) raw milk that has soured and thickened | - |
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clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
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cobber | (noun) Australian term for a pal | - |
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crabbedness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbiness, crossness |
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dibber | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibble |
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dumbbell | (noun) an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle | - |
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(noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead |
fibber | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fabricator, storyteller |
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flibbertigibbet | (noun) a female fool | Synonyms: foolish woman |
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gibber | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibberish |
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gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
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gibberish | (noun) unintelligible talking | Synonyms: gibber |
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gibbet | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallous, gallows-tree, gallows tree |
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gobbet | (noun) a lump or chunk of raw meat | - |
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grabber | (noun) an unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately | - |
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graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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(noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
hobber | (noun) a special type of milling machine used for gear cutting, cutting splines, and cutting sprockets. | Synonyms: hobbing machine |
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jabber | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabbering |
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jabberer | (noun) someone whose talk is trivial drivel | Synonyms: driveller |
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jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
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jabberwocky | (noun) nonsensical language (according to Lewis Carroll) | - |
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jobber | (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: middleman, wholesaler |
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jobbery | (noun) corruptness among public officials | - |
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landlubber | (noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landsman, lubber |
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(noun) a person who lives and works on land | Synonyms: landman, landsman |
libber | (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: feminist, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
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lubber | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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(noun) an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage | Synonyms: landlubber, landsman |
moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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nebbech | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbish |
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rabbet | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rebate |
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robber | (noun) a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence | - |
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robbery | (noun) larceny by threat of violence | - |
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(noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: looting |
rubber | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe |
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(noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety |
(noun) an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil | Synonyms: pencil eraser, rubber eraser |
(noun) a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides | - |
(noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: caoutchouc, gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber |
(noun) any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber | Synonyms: synthetic rubber |
rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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(noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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scrubber | (noun) a purifier that removes impurities from a gas | - |
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(noun) a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning | Synonyms: scrub brush, scrubbing brush |
(noun) a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) | - |
shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
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(noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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stockjobber | (noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers | - |
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