babble | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babbling, lallation |
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babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
bobble | (noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | - |
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bubble | (noun) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic | - |
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(noun) an impracticable and illusory idea | - |
(noun) a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control | Synonyms: house of cards |
(noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) | - |
bubblejet | (noun) a kind of ink-jet printer | Synonyms: bubble-jet printer, bubble jet printer |
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bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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(noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
cobble | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobblestone, sett |
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cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
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(noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
(noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
cobblers | (noun) a man's testicles | - |
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(noun) nonsense | - |
cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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collywobbles | (noun) severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea | Synonyms: cholera morbus |
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dabbler | (noun) any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling | Synonyms: dabbling duck |
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(noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dilettante, sciolist |
dibble | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibber |
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dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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(noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
(noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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(noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
ecobabble | (noun) using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware | - |
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gabble | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: jabber, jabbering |
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gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
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gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
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(noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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(noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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kibble | (noun) an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining | - |
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(noun) coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food) | - |
knobble | (noun) a small knob | - |
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nibble | (noun) gentle biting | - |
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(noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nybble |
nibbler | (noun) a biter who takes dainty repeated bites | - |
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nubble | (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nub |
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nybble | (noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nibble |
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pebble | (noun) a small smooth rounded rock | - |
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psychobabble | (noun) using language loaded with psychological terminology | - |
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quibble | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: cavil, quiddity |
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quibbler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, pettifogger |
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rabble | (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rout |
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(noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff |
rubble | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, junk |
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scrabble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scribble |
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scribble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scrabble |
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(noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scrawl |
scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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(noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |
squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, tiff |
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squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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stubble | (noun) short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days | - |
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(noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw |
technobabble | (noun) technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects | - |
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wobble | (noun) an unsteady rocking motion | - |
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wobbler | (noun) something that wobbles | - |
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