| addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
| addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| addled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| (adjective) (of eggs) no longer edible | - |
| addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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| addlepated | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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| astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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| befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
| befuddled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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| (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
| (adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befogged |
| befuddlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| buddleia | (noun) tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterfly bush |
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| coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
| coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
| cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| diddley | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| doddle | (noun) an easy task | - |
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| fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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| (verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
| (verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
| (verb) play on a violin | - |
| (verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
| fiddlehead | (noun) New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible | Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea |
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| (noun) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes | Synonyms: Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, Pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern |
| fiddleneck | (noun) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers | Synonyms: Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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| fiddler | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: violinist |
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| (noun) an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinkerer |
| (noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: twiddler |
| fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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| fuddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
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| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
| (verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
| fuddled | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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| 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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| (verb) cook on a griddle | - |
| 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 |
| huddle | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: powwow |
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| (noun) a disorganized and densely packed crowd | - |
| (verb) crouch or curl up | Synonyms: cower |
| (verb) crowd or draw together | Synonyms: huddle together |
| huddled | (adjective) crowded or massed together | - |
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| huddler | (noun) a member of a huddle | - |
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| (noun) a person who crouches | - |
| meddle | (verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: tamper |
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| meddler | (noun) an officious annoying person who interferes with others | - |
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| meddlesome | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddling, officious |
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| meddlesomeness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: intrusiveness, officiousness |
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| middle | (adjective) between an earlier and a later period of time | - |
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| (adjective) of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages | - |
| (adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, mediate |
| (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, halfway, midway |
| (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: midriff, midsection |
| (noun) an intermediate part or section | - |
| (noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart |
| (noun) the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process | - |
| (verb) put in the middle | - |
| middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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| middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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| middleman | (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers | Synonyms: jobber, wholesaler |
| (noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: interlocutor |
| middlemost | (adjective) being in the exact middle | Synonyms: midmost |
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| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, pamper, spoil |
| mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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| (noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, puddle |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: puddle |
| muddled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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| muddleheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, puddingheaded |
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| noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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| paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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| (noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
| (noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
| (noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
| (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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| paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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| paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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| paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| peddler | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, pedlar, pitchman |
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| (noun) an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs | Synonyms: drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, pusher |
| piddle | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piss, urine, water, weewee |
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| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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| (noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
| (noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
| (verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
| (verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
| (verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
| (verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
| (verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
| (verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
| puddler | (noun) a worker who turns pig iron into wrought iron by puddling | - |
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| raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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| (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| raddled | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, worn |
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| (adjective) used until no longer useful | Synonyms: worn-out |
| reddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, ruddle |
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| riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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| (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
| (verb) explain a riddle | - |
| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| riddled | (adjective) (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes | - |
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| (adjective) spread throughout | - |
| ruddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, reddle |
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| (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
| ruddles | (noun) the common European annual marigold | Synonyms: Calendula officinalis, common marigold, pot marigold, Scotch marigold |
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| saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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| (noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
| (noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
| (noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
| (noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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| saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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| saddled | (adjective) having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal | - |
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| (adjective) subject to an imposed burden | - |
| saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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| saddlery | (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: stable gear, tack |
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| (noun) workshop where a saddler works | - |
| sidesaddle | (noun) a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse | - |
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| (adverb) on or as if on a sidesaddle | - |
| skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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| (verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
| staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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| straddle | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: span |
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| (noun) the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options | - |
| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars | - |
| (noun) a noncommittal or equivocal position | - |
| (verb) be noncommittal | - |
| (verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
| (verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
| swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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| taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| tiddler | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tike, tyke, youngster |
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| toddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, totter, waddle |
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| toddler | (noun) a young child who is just beginning to walk | Synonyms: bambino, tot, yearling |
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| twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
| twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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| twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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| (verb) manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddle with |
| (verb) turn in a twisting or spinning motion | Synonyms: swirl, twirl, whirl |
| twiddler | (noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: fiddler |
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| unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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| unsaddled | (adjective) with no saddle | - |
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| waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
| waddler | (noun) someone who walks with a waddling gait | - |
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