| airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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| ambush | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, lying in wait, trap |
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| ambusher | (noun) an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack | - |
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| babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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| blush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: flush |
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| (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blusher, paint, rouge |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, flush, rosiness |
| blusher | (noun) makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks | Synonyms: blush, paint, rouge |
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| (noun) yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched | Synonyms: Amanita rubescens, blushing mushroom |
| bottlebrush | (noun) a cylindrical brush on a thin shaft that is used to clean bottles | - |
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| brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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| brush | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: clash, encounter, skirmish |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brushing |
| (noun) contact with something dangerous or undesirable | - |
| (noun) a bushy tail or part of a bushy tail (especially of the fox) | - |
| (noun) an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle | - |
| (noun) conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor | - |
| (noun) momentary contact | Synonyms: light touch |
| (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket |
| brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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| (noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
| brushup | (noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: review |
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| brushwood | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket |
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| (noun) the wood from bushes or small branches | - |
| brushwork | (noun) an artist's distinctive technique of applying paint with a brush | - |
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| bullrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bulrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bulrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bulrush | (noun) tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America | Synonyms: bullrush, common rush, Juncus effusus, soft rush |
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| (noun) tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: bullrush, cat's-tail, nailrod, reed mace, reedmace, Typha latifolia |
| bush | (noun) hair growing in the pubic area | Synonyms: crotch hair, pubic hair |
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| (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: chaparral, scrub |
| (noun) a large wilderness area | - |
| (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Synonyms: shrub |
| bushbaby | (noun) agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears | Synonyms: bush baby, galago |
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| bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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| bushel | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks | - |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches | - |
| bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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| (noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
| bushman | (noun) a dweller in the Australian bush country | - |
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| bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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| bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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| (noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
| clothesbrush | (noun) a brush used for cleaning clothing | - |
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| crush | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crunch |
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| (noun) temporary love of an adolescent | Synonyms: calf love, infatuation, puppy love |
| (noun) a dense crowd of people | Synonyms: jam, press |
| (noun) leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated | Synonyms: crushed leather |
| crusher | (noun) a device that crushes something | - |
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| crushing | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
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| cushat | (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, ringdove, wood pigeon |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| cushion | (noun) a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses | Synonyms: shock, shock absorber |
| (noun) the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle | - |
| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| daisybush | (noun) any of various mostly Australian attractively shaped shrubs of the genus Olearia grown for their handsome and sometimes fragrant evergreen foliage and profusion of daisy flowers with white or purple or blue rays | Synonyms: daisy-bush, daisy bush |
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| fetterbush | (noun) showy evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with shiny leaves and angled branches and clusters of pink to reddish flowers that resemble an umbel | Synonyms: fetter bush, Lyonia lucida, shiny lyonia |
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| (noun) ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: mountain andromeda, mountain fetterbush, Pieris floribunda |
| flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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| flush | (noun) sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty) | Synonyms: blush |
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| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: gush, outpouring |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, kick, rush, thrill |
| (noun) a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit | - |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, blush, rosiness |
| (noun) sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders) | Synonyms: hot flash |
| (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, heyday, peak, prime |
| goldenbush | (noun) a plant of the genus Haplopappus | - |
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| (noun) any of various much-branched yellow-flowered shrubs of the genus Chrysothamnus; western North America | - |
| gush | (noun) an unrestrained expression of emotion | Synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, outburst |
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| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, outpouring |
| gusher | (noun) an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary | - |
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| hairbrush | (noun) a brush used to groom a person's hair | - |
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| hush | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: still, stillness |
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| hushing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hissing, sibilation |
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| hushpuppy | (noun) deep-fried cornbread ball (southern) | Synonyms: hush puppy |
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| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| lawyerbush | (noun) stout-stemmed trailing shrub of New Zealand that scrambles over other growth | Synonyms: bush lawyer, lawyer bush, Rubus australis, Rubus cissoides |
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| lush | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, soaker, souse |
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| lushness | (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriance, voluptuousness |
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| macushla | (noun) (an Irish term of address expressing affection) darling | - |
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| matchbush | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches | Synonyms: matchweed |
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| minniebush | (noun) low shrub of the eastern United States with downy twigs | Synonyms: Menziesia pilosa, minnie bush |
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| mush | (noun) a journey by dogsled | - |
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| (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, slop, treacle |
| (noun) cornmeal boiled in water | Synonyms: cornmeal mush |
| (noun) any soft or soggy mass | Synonyms: pulp |
| musher | (noun) a traveler who drives (or travels with) a dog team | - |
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| mushiness | (noun) a mushy pulpy softness | Synonyms: pulpiness |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| mushroom | (noun) fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi | - |
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| (noun) a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) | Synonyms: mushroom-shaped cloud, mushroom cloud |
| (noun) common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) | - |
| (noun) mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) | - |
| (noun) any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium | - |
| nailbrush | (noun) a brush used to clean a person's fingernails | - |
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| needlebush | (noun) shrub with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers; eastern Australia | Synonyms: Hakea lissosperma, needle-bush, needle bush |
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| onrush | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onset, onslaught |
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| (noun) a forceful forward rush or flow | - |
| paintbrush | (noun) a brush used as an applicator (to apply paint) | - |
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| penpusher | (noun) a clerk who does boring paperwork | Synonyms: pencil pusher |
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| pincushion | (noun) a small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use | - |
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| plush | (noun) a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet | - |
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| puckerbush | (noun) evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United States having small hard berries thickly coated with white wax used for candles | Synonyms: bay myrtle, Myrica cerifera |
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| push | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: pushing |
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| (noun) an effort to advance | - |
| (noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: button, push button |
| (noun) enterprising or ambitious drive | Synonyms: energy, get-up-and-go |
| (noun) the force used in pushing | Synonyms: thrust |
| pushball | (noun) a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal | - |
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| pushcart | (noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: cart, go-cart, handcart |
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| pushchair | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pusher, stroller |
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| pusher | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, stroller |
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| (noun) a sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes | Synonyms: zori |
| (noun) someone who pushes | Synonyms: shover |
| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, peddler |
| (noun) one who intrudes or pushes himself forward | Synonyms: thruster |
| pushiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, cockiness, forwardness |
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| pushing | (noun) the act of applying force in order to move something away | Synonyms: push |
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| pushover | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, snap, walkover |
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| (noun) someone who is easily taken advantage of | - |
| pushpin | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, thumbtack |
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| pushup | (noun) an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms | Synonyms: press-up |
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| qurush | (noun) 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia | - |
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| redbrush | (noun) common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers | Synonyms: American dogwood, Cornus stolonifera, red dogwood, red osier, red osier dogwood |
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| rosebush | (noun) any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses | Synonyms: rose |
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| rush | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rushing |
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| (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rushing |
| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: spate, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) a sudden burst of activity | - |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, charge, flush, kick, thrill |
| (noun) grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems | - |
| rusher | (noun) a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously | - |
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| (noun) someone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory | - |
| (noun) (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball | - |
| rushing | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line | Synonyms: rush |
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| (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: haste, hurry, rush |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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| saltbush | (noun) any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil | - |
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| shadbush | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadblow |
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| silverbush | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverberry |
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| (noun) silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Anthyllis barba-jovis, Jupiter's beard, silver-bush |
| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| slush | (noun) partially melted snow | - |
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| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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| staggerbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock | Synonyms: Lyonia mariana, stagger bush |
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| sushi | (noun) rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed | - |
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| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| thrush | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | - |
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| (noun) a woman who sings popular songs | - |
| (noun) candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults | - |
| toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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| (noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
| tush | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie |
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| tushery | (noun) writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words | - |
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| underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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| usher | (noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: guide |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: doorkeeper |
| usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
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