angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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(adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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fledgling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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(adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, unfledged |
(noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgeling |
(noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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(adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
glint | (noun) a spatially localized brightness | - |
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(noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, spark |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
metheglin | (noun) spiced or medicated mead | - |
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mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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ridgling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgil |
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shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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(noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
smuggling | (noun) secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due | - |
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snuggling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching |
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straggling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggly |
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stragglingly | (adverb) in a ragged irregular manner | Synonyms: raggedly |
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strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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struggling | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | - |
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tingling | (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tickling, titillating |
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(noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: prickling, tingle |
ugliness | (noun) qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses | - |
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(noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, vileness, wickedness |
untangling | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: disentanglement, extrication, unsnarling |
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wangling | (noun) an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery | Synonyms: wangle |
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wiggliness | (noun) a jerky back and forth kind of mobility | - |
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wrangling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, haggling, wrangle |
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wriggling | (adjective) moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion | Synonyms: wiggly, wriggly, writhing |
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