mantiger | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, manticore |
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massager | (noun) someone who rubs or kneads parts of the body to stimulate circulation and promote relaxation | - |
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merger | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, uniting |
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(noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, unification |
messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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mortgager | (noun) the person who gives a mortgage in return for money to be repaid | Synonyms: mortgagor |
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mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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mugger | (noun) a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street) | - |
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nagger | (noun) someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault | Synonyms: common scold, nag, scold, scolder |
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newsmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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nigger | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: jigaboo, nigga, nigra |
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nudger | (noun) someone who nudges; someone who gives a gentle push | - |
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obliger | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: accommodator |
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onager | (noun) Asiatic wild ass | Synonyms: Equus hemionus |
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(noun) small catapult used by the Romans | - |
osteologer | (noun) an anatomist who is skilled in osteology | Synonyms: osteologist |
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outrigger | (noun) a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull | - |
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pager | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: beeper |
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paperhanger | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperer |
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(noun) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money | - |
passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
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(noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
phalanger | (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, possum |
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pillager | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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pinger | (noun) a pulse generator used for echo sounding in sonar | - |
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pledger | (noun) someone who makes or gives a pledge | - |
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plugger | (noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: booster, promoter |
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plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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(noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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preteenager | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteen |
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ranger | (noun) an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest | Synonyms: fire warden, forest fire fighter |
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(noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: commando |
rigger | (noun) a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists | Synonyms: rigger brush |
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(noun) a sailing vessel with a specified rig | - |
(noun) someone who rigs ships | - |
(noun) someone who works on an oil rig | Synonyms: oil rigger |
ringer | (noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg | - |
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(noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses | - |
(noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: clone, dead ringer |
(noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | Synonyms: bell ringer, toller |
rugger | (noun) a form of football played with an oval ball | Synonyms: rugby, rugby football |
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rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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salvager | (noun) someone who salvages | Synonyms: salvor |
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sandbagger | (noun) someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you | - |
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scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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scavenger | (noun) any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter | - |
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(noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: magpie, pack rat |
(noun) a chemical agent that is added to a chemical mixture to counteract the effects of impurities | - |
scourger | (noun) a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders) | Synonyms: flogger |
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scrounger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, moocher |
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serger | (noun) a sewing machine that overcasts the raw edges of a fabric with a V-shaped stitch | - |
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singer | (noun) a person who sings | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer |
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slinger | (noun) a person who uses a sling to throw something | - |
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slogger | (noun) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | Synonyms: slugger |
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(noun) someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours | Synonyms: plodder |
(noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, trudger |
slugger | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, batter, hitter |
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(noun) a boxer noted for an ability to deliver hard punches | Synonyms: slogger |
snigger | (noun) a disrespectful laugh | Synonyms: snicker, snort |
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sponger | (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponge |
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(noun) a workman employed to collect sponges | - |
sprigger | (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: stemmer, stripper |
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springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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(noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
(noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
stager | (noun) someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed | Synonyms: stage manager |
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(noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, veteran, warhorse |
stagger | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stumble |
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stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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(noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
(noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
stranger | (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, unknown |
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(noun) an individual that one is not acquainted with | - |
straphanger | (noun) a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support | - |
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(noun) a commuter who uses public transportation | - |
stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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(noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
(noun) a worker who strings | - |
(noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
supercharger | (noun) compressor that forces increased oxygen into the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine | - |
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swagger | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, strut |
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(noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swaggie, swagman |
swinger | (noun) a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex | Synonyms: tramp |
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(noun) someone who swings sports implements | - |
tagger | (noun) a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter | Synonyms: tagging program |
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(noun) someone who appends or joins one thing to another | - |
(noun) someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter | - |
tanager | (noun) any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males | - |
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teenager | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teen |
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tiger | (noun) large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered | Synonyms: Panthera tigris |
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(noun) a fierce or audacious person | - |
trigger | (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
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(noun) lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun | Synonyms: gun trigger |
(noun) a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen | - |
trudger | (noun) someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner | Synonyms: plodder, slogger |
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tugger | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, puller |
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tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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upstager | (noun) a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | - |
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verger | (noun) a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies | - |
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villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
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vintager | (noun) a person who harvests grapes for making wine | - |
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vlogger | (noun) a video blogger | - |
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voyager | (noun) a traveler to a distant land (especially one who travels by sea) | - |
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wager | (noun) the act of gambling | Synonyms: bet |
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(noun) the money risked on a gamble | Synonyms: bet, stake, stakes |
warmonger | (noun) a person who advocates war or warlike policies | Synonyms: militarist |
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whoremonger | (noun) a pimp who procures whores | Synonyms: whoremaster |
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(noun) a prostitute's customer | Synonyms: john, trick, whoremaster |
winger | (noun) (sports) player in wing position | - |
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wordmonger | (noun) a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | - |
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wringer | (noun) a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed | - |
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zinger | (noun) a striking or amusing or caustic remark | - |
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