bludgeon | (noun) a club used as a weapon | - |
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(verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: club |
(verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club | - |
bludgeoner | (noun) an assailant who uses a bludgeon | - |
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bourgeon | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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burgeon | (verb) grow and flourish | - |
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burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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dudgeon | (noun) a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') | Synonyms: high dudgeon |
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dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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(noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
gudgeon | (noun) small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: Gobio gobio |
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(noun) small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker | Synonyms: goby |
habergeon | (noun) (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk | - |
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neurosurgeon | (noun) someone who does surgery on the nervous system (especially the brain) | Synonyms: brain surgeon |
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pigeon | (noun) wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs | - |
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pigeonhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: cubbyhole |
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(noun) a specific (often simplistic) category | - |
(verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
(verb) place into a small compartment | - |
pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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smidgeon | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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stoolpigeon | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie |
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sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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surgeon | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, sawbones |
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surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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widgeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, wigeon |
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wigeon | (noun) freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals | Synonyms: Anas penelope, widgeon |
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