| gregariousness | (noun) the quality of being gregarious--having a dislike of being alone | - |
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| greisen | (noun) a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica | - |
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| gremlin | (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: brownie, elf, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
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| grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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| grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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| (noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
| grenadine | (noun) thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks | - |
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| grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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| grey | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: gray |
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| (noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: gray |
| (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, greyness |
| (noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: gray |
| greyback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: grayback, Limnodromus griseus |
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| (noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, grayback, knot |
| (noun) `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms | Synonyms: Johnny, Johnny Reb, Reb, Rebel |
| greybeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, long-beard, longbeard |
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| (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: graybeard, Methuselah, old man |
| greyhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, heath hen |
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| greyhound | (noun) a tall slender dog of an ancient breed noted for swiftness and keen sight; used as a racing dog | - |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| greyness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey |
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| grid | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: gridiron |
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| (noun) an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube | Synonyms: control grid |
| (noun) a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region | Synonyms: power grid, power system |
| (noun) a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material | Synonyms: storage-battery grid |
| (noun) a pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines | - |
| griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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| griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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| (noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
| gridiron | (noun) a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat | Synonyms: grid |
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| (noun) the playing field on which football is played | Synonyms: football field |
| gridlock | (noun) a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible | - |
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| grief | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: sorrow |
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| (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, heartache, heartbreak |
| grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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| (noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
| (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
| griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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| griffin | (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffon, gryphon |
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| griffon | (noun) breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle | Synonyms: Belgian griffon, Brussels griffon |
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| (noun) breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France | Synonyms: wire-haired pointing griffon |
| (noun) large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings | Synonyms: griffon vulture, Gyps fulvus |
| (noun) winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion | Synonyms: griffin, gryphon |
| grifter | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, scammer, swindler |
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| grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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| grill | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grille, grillwork |
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| (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grillroom |
| grille | (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grillwork |
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| (noun) grating that admits cooling air to car's radiator | Synonyms: radiator grille |
| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: lattice, wicket |
| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grillroom | (noun) a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | Synonyms: grill |
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| grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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| (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
| grimace | (noun) a contorted facial expression | Synonyms: face |
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| grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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| griminess | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: grubbiness |
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| grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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| (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
| grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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| grin | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grinning, smile, smiling |
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| grind | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization |
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| (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding |
| (noun) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground | - |
| (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk |
| grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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| (noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
| (noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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| (noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
| grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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| grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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| grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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| griot | (noun) a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village | - |
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| grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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| (noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
| (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
| (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
| (noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
| (noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
| (noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
| gripe | (noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, bitch, kick, squawk |
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| gripes | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, griping, intestinal colic |
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| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| grippe | (noun) an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease | Synonyms: flu, influenza |
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| gripsack | (noun) a small suitcase | - |
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| grisaille | (noun) chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief | - |
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| griseofulvin | (noun) a kind of penicillin (a fungicidal antibiotic with the trade name Fulvicin) produced by molds of the genus Penicillium | Synonyms: Fulvicin |
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| grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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| grissino | (noun) a long slender crusty breadstick | - |
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| grist | (noun) grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
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| gristle | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: cartilage |
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| gristmill | (noun) a mill for grinding grain (especially the customer's own grain) | - |
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| grit | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
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| (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone |
| gritrock | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritstone |
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| grits | (noun) coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States | Synonyms: hominy grits |
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| gritstone | (noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: grit, gritrock |
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| grivet | (noun) white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face | Synonyms: Cercopithecus aethiops |
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| grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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| grizzly | (noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
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| groan | (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval | Synonyms: moan |
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| groaner | (noun) a person who groans | - |
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| groat | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: fourpence |
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| groats | (noun) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals | - |
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| grocer | (noun) a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies) | - |
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| grocery | (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery store, market |
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| (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: foodstuff |
| groenendael | (noun) black-coated sheepdog with a heavily plumed tail | - |
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| grog | (noun) rum cut with water | - |
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| grogginess | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: semiconsciousness, stupefaction, stupor |
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| (noun) a groggy state resulting from weariness | - |
| (noun) a dazed and staggering state caused by alcohol | - |
| grogram | (noun) a coarse fabric of silk mixed with wool or mohair and often stiffened with gum | - |
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| groin | (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groyne, jetty, mole, seawall |
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| (noun) a curved edge formed by two intersecting vaults | - |
| (noun) the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals | Synonyms: inguen |
| grommet | (noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, eyelet, grummet, loop |
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| gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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| groom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: bridegroom |
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| (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: hostler, ostler, stableboy, stableman |
| (noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: bridegroom |
| grooming | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: dressing |
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| (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: preparation, training |
| groomsman | (noun) a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding | - |
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| groove | (noun) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape | Synonyms: rut |
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| (noun) (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part | Synonyms: vallecula |
| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: channel |
| groover | (noun) a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching | - |
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| grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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| grope | (noun) the act of groping; and instance of groping | - |
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| grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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| groschen | (noun) 100 groschen equal 1 schilling in Austria | - |
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| grosgrain | (noun) a silk or silklike fabric with crosswise ribs | - |
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| gross | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: receipts, revenue |
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| (noun) twelve dozen | Synonyms: 144 |
| grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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| grossness | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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| grosz | (noun) 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland | - |
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| grot | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grotto |
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| grotesque | (noun) art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants | - |
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| grotesqueness | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesquerie, grotesquery |
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| grotesquerie | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquery |
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| grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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| grotto | (noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) | Synonyms: grot |
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| grouch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, crosspatch, grump |
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