goldenrod | (noun) any of numerous chiefly summer-blooming and fall-blooming North American plants especially of the genus Solidago | - |
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goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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goldfield | (noun) a district where gold is mined | - |
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goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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goldfinch | (noun) small European finch having a crimson face and yellow-and-black wings | Synonyms: Carduelis carduelis |
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(noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis, yellowbird |
goldfish | (noun) small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes | Synonyms: Carassius auratus |
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goldilocks | (noun) early-flowering perennial of southern and southeastern Europe with flower heads resembling those of goldenrod | Synonyms: Aster linosyris, goldilocks aster, Linosyris vulgaris |
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goldmine | (noun) a mine where gold ore is found | Synonyms: gold mine |
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(noun) a good source of something that is desired | Synonyms: gold mine |
goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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goldstone | (noun) aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
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goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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golem | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: automaton, robot |
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(noun) (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means | - |
golf | (noun) a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes | Synonyms: golf game |
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golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
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golfclub | (noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: club, golf-club, golf club |
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golfer | (noun) someone who plays the game of golf | Synonyms: golf player, linksman |
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golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
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goliard | (noun) a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs | - |
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goliath | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, monster |
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golliwog | (noun) a grotesque black doll | Synonyms: golliwogg |
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golliwogg | (noun) a grotesque black doll | Synonyms: golliwog |
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golosh | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, gumshoe, rubber |
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gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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gomuti | (noun) Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm |
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gonad | (noun) a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced | Synonyms: sex gland |
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gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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gondola | (noun) long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice | - |
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(noun) a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof | Synonyms: gondola car |
(noun) the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant | Synonyms: car |
gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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goner | (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: toast |
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gong | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick | Synonyms: tam-tam |
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(noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, chime |
gonif | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, goniff |
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goniff | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, gonif |
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goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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gonion | (noun) the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw | - |
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gonioscopy | (noun) an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma | - |
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gonococcus | (noun) the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea | Synonyms: Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
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gonorrhea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhoea |
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gonorrhoea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhea |
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goo | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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goober | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
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good | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
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(noun) benefit | - |
(noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
(noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
goodby | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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goodbye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, sayonara, so long |
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goodness | (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: good |
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(noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: good |
goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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(noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
(noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
goody | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, kickshaw, treat |
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goof | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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(noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goofball, merry andrew |
goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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(noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
googly | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un |
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googol | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) | - |
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googolplex | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol) | - |
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gook | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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goon | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
gooney | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney bird, goonie, goony |
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goonie | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goony |
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goony | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goonie |
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goop | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop, soap |
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(noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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goose | (noun) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks | - |
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(noun) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) | - |
(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany |
gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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(noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
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gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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gopher | (noun) burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America | Synonyms: pocket gopher, pouched rat |
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(noun) burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America | Synonyms: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus |
(noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: ground squirrel, spermophile |
(noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: goffer |
gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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goral | (noun) small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains | Synonyms: Naemorhedus goral |
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gore | (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: bloodshed |
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(noun) a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | Synonyms: panel |
(noun) coagulated blood from a wound | - |
gorge | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gullet, oesophagus |
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(noun) a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) | - |
(noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: defile |
gorgeousness | (noun) The characteristic or quality of being very beautiful. | - |
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gorger | (noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: scoffer |
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gorgerin | (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: necking |
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gorget | (noun) armor plate that protects the neck | - |
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gorgonian | (noun) corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton | Synonyms: gorgonian coral |
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gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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goshawk | (noun) large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry | Synonyms: Accipiter gentilis |
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gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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gospel | (noun) a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance | - |
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(noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine |
(noun) an unquestionable truth | Synonyms: gospel truth |
(noun) folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) | Synonyms: gospel singing |
gospeler | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeller, revivalist |
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gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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gossamer | (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
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(noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
(noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
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gouache | (noun) a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum | - |
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(noun) an opaque watercolor prepared with gum | - |
gouge | (noun) the act of gouging | - |
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(noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves | - |
(noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, nick |
gouger | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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(noun) an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye | - |
goujon | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, mudcat, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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