ally | (noun) a friendly nation | - |
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(noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance | Synonyms: friend |
allyl | (noun) the univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5; derived from propylene | Synonyms: allyl group, allyl radical |
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ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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belly | (noun) the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | - |
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(noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, stomach, venter |
(noun) a protruding abdomen | Synonyms: paunch |
(noun) the hollow inside of something | - |
(noun) a part that bulges deeply | - |
bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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(noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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bellyful | (noun) an undesirable overabundance | - |
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billy | (noun) male goat | Synonyms: billy goat, he-goat |
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(noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy club, billystick, nightstick, truncheon |
billyo | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyoh |
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billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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blolly | (noun) evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries | Synonyms: Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry |
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brolly | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: gamp |
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bully | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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(noun) a hired thug | - |
bullyboy | (noun) a swaggering tough; usually one acting as an agent of a political faction | - |
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bullying | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: intimidation |
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chilly | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli |
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collyrium | (noun) lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes | Synonyms: eye-lotion, eyewash |
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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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dillydallier | (noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, lounger, mope |
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dolly | (noun) a small replica of a person; used as a toy | Synonyms: doll |
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(noun) conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects | - |
(noun) conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted | - |
felly | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felloe |
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filly | (noun) a young female horse under the age of four | - |
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folly | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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(noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity |
(noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: foolishness, unwiseness |
(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, foolishness, madness |
gelly | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelignite |
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gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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(noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
gully | (noun) deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) | - |
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hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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holly | (noun) any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges | - |
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hollygrape | (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries | Synonyms: holly-leaves barberry, Mahonia aquifolium, mountain grape, Oregon grape, Oregon holly grape |
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hollyhock | (noun) any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, althea |
jelly | (noun) a preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit | - |
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(noun) an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods | Synonyms: gelatin |
(noun) any substance having the consistency of jelly or gelatin | - |
jellyfish | (noun) any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans | - |
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(noun) large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles | Synonyms: man-of-war, Portuguese man-of-war |
jellyleaf | (noun) herb widely distributed in tropics and subtropics used for forage and medicinally as a demulcent and having a fine soft bast stronger than jute; sometimes an aggressive weed | Synonyms: Queensland hemp, Sida rhombifolia |
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jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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jolly | (noun) a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work | Synonyms: jolly boat |
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(noun) a happy party | - |
lally | (noun) support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete | Synonyms: lally column |
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loblolly | (noun) thick gruel | - |
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lolly | (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lollipop, popsicle |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
molly | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: mollie |
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mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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mollymawk | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: albatross |
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pollyfish | (noun) gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth | Synonyms: parrotfish, polly fish |
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pollywog | (noun) a larval frog or toad | Synonyms: polliwog, tadpole |
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potbelly | (noun) a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned | Synonyms: potbelly stove |
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(noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, tummy |
rally | (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: exchange |
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(noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rallying |
(noun) an automobile race run over public roads | - |
(noun) a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm | Synonyms: mass meeting |
(noun) a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness | - |
rallying | (noun) the act of mobilizing for a common purpose | - |
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(noun) the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort | Synonyms: rally |
redbelly | (noun) freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell | Synonyms: Pseudemys rubriventris, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle |
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rockabilly | (noun) a fusion of black music and country music that was popular in the 1950s; sometimes described as blues with a country beat | - |
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sally | (noun) a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position | Synonyms: sortie |
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(noun) a venture off the beaten path | Synonyms: sallying forth |
(noun) witty remark | Synonyms: crack, quip, wisecrack |
scallywag | (noun) one who is playfully mischievous | Synonyms: imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scamp |
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(noun) a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel | Synonyms: knave, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scalawag, varlet |
(noun) a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) | Synonyms: scalawag |
shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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silly | (noun) a word used for misbehaving children | - |
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skilly | (noun) a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) | - |
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sowbelly | (noun) salt pork from the belly of a hog carcass | - |
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tally | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning |
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(noun) a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely | Synonyms: run |
(noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: reckoning |
tallyman | (noun) one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received | Synonyms: tally clerk |
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(noun) one who sells goods on the installment plan | - |
telly | (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television, television receiver, television set, tv, tv set |
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underbelly | (noun) the quality of being weak or unprotected | - |
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(noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbody |
(noun) lower side | - |
wally | (noun) a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid | - |
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