baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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brick | (noun) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material | - |
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(noun) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy | - |
brickbat | (noun) blunt criticism | - |
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(noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon | - |
brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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brickkiln | (noun) a kiln for making bricks | - |
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bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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bricklaying | (noun) the craft of laying bricks | - |
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brickwork | (noun) masonry done with bricks and mortar | - |
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brickyard | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickfield |
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crick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: kink, rick, wrick |
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cricket | (noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs | - |
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(noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together | - |
cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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(noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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(noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
(noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
(noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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hayrick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: haystack, rick |
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limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
pinprick | (noun) small puncture (as if made by a pin) | - |
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(noun) a minor annoyance | - |
prick | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: pricking |
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(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, putz, shaft, tool |
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit |
pricker | (noun) an awl for making small holes for brads or small screws | Synonyms: bradawl |
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(noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
pricket | (noun) male deer in his second year | - |
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(noun) a sharp metal spike to hold a candle | - |
pricking | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: prick |
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prickle | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn |
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prickleback | (noun) small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines | - |
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(noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: stickleback |
prickliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, spininess, thorniness |
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prickling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: tingle, tingling |
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prickteaser | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, tease, vamp, vamper |
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rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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(noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
ricketiness | (noun) the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place | Synonyms: unsteadiness |
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rickets | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rachitis |
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rickettsia | (noun) any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings | - |
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rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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rickettsiosis | (noun) infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria | Synonyms: rickettsial disease |
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rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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ricksha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, rickshaw |
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rickshaw | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, ricksha |
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strickle | (noun) a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand | - |
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(noun) a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure | - |
(noun) an implement for sharpening scythes | - |
trick | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, prank, put-on |
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(noun) (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner | - |
(noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy |
(noun) an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent | - |
(noun) a cunning or deceitful action or device | Synonyms: fast one |
(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, whoremaster, whoremonger |
(noun) a period of work or duty | - |
tricker | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, trickster |
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trickery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, wile |
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(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness |
trickiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness |
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(noun) the quality of requiring skill or caution | - |
trickle | (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, drip |
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trickster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, prankster, tricker |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker |
(noun) a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts | - |
wrick | (noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, rick |
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