| jiao | (noun) 10 jiao equal 1 yuan in China | - |
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| jib | (noun) any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast) | - |
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| jibboom | (noun) a spar that extends the bowsprit | - |
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| jibe | (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: barb, dig, gibe, shaft, shot, slam |
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| jiffy | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
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| jig | (noun) any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping | - |
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| (noun) a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it | - |
| (noun) a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water | - |
| (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: gigue |
| jigaboo | (noun) (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person | Synonyms: nigga, nigger, nigra |
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| jigger | (noun) larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation | Synonyms: chigger, harvest mite, redbug |
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| (noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: pony, shot glass |
| (noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jiggermast |
| jiggermast | (noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jigger |
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| jiggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: joggle |
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| jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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| (noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
| jihad | (noun) a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | Synonyms: jehad |
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| jillion | (noun) a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole) | Synonyms: bazillion, billion, gazillion, million, trillion, zillion |
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| jilt | (noun) a woman who jilts a lover | - |
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| jimdandy | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimhickey |
| jimhickey | (noun) something excellent of its kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
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| (noun) someone excellent of their kind | Synonyms: crackerjack, jimdandy |
| jimmies | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: sprinkles |
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| jimmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jemmy |
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| jimsonweed | (noun) intensely poisonous tall coarse annual tropical weed having rank-smelling foliage, large white or violet trumpet-shaped flowers and prickly fruits | Synonyms: apple of Peru, common thorn apple, Datura stramonium, Jamestown weed, jimson weed |
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| jingle | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel, doggerel verse |
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| (noun) a metallic sound | Synonyms: jangle |
| jingo | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingoist, patrioteer |
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| jingoism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
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| (noun) an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | Synonyms: flag waving |
| jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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| jinks | (noun) noisy and mischievous merrymaking | Synonyms: high jinks, high jinx, hijinks |
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| jinnee | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinni |
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| jinni | (noun) (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals | Synonyms: djinn, djinni, djinny, genie, jinnee |
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| jinrikisha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: ricksha, rickshaw |
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| jinx | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, whammy |
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| (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jonah |
| jiqui | (noun) Cuban timber tree with hard wood very resistant to moisture | Synonyms: Malpighia obovata |
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| jird | (noun) gerbil of northern Africa | - |
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| jitney | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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| jitter | (noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | - |
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| (noun) a small irregular movement | - |
| jitterbug | (noun) a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s | - |
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| jitteriness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jitters | (noun) extreme nervousness | Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
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| jiujitsu | (noun) a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength | Synonyms: jujitsu, jujutsu |
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| jive | (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: swing, swing music |
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