attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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baloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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(verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
chimney | (noun) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building | - |
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(noun) a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | Synonyms: lamp chimney |
chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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chimneypot | (noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft | - |
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chimneystack | (noun) the part of the chimney that is above the roof; usually has several flues | - |
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chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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chutney | (noun) a spicy condiment made of chopped fruits or vegetables cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices | Synonyms: Indian relish |
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cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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(noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London | - |
coney | (noun) black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins | Synonyms: Epinephelus fulvus |
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(noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: cony, rabbit |
(noun) small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America | Synonyms: cony, mouse hare, pika, rock rabbit |
(noun) any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes | Synonyms: cony, das, dassie, hyrax |
garganey | (noun) small Eurasian teal | Synonyms: Anas querquedula |
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goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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(noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
gooney | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney bird, goonie, goony |
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greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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hackney | (noun) a compact breed of harness horse | - |
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(noun) a carriage for hire | Synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach |
hackneyed | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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honey | (adjective) of something having the color of honey | - |
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(noun) a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees | - |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
(verb) sweeten with honey | - |
honeybee | (noun) social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces | Synonyms: Apis mellifera |
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honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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(noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
(verb) make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | - |
(verb) penetrate thoroughly and into every part | - |
(verb) carve a honeycomb pattern into | - |
honeycombed | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, pitted |
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honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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(noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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(noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
honeyed | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet |
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(adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honied, syrupy |
honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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(noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
honeylike | (adjective) resembling honey | - |
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honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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(noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
(verb) spend a holiday after one's marriage | - |
honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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honeypot | (noun) South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | Synonyms: king protea, Protea cynaroides |
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honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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(noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
(noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
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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journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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(verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
(verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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kidney | (noun) either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine | - |
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looney | (noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, loony, nutcase, weirdo |
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money | (noun) the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | - |
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(noun) the official currency issued by a government or national bank | - |
(noun) wealth reckoned in terms of money | - |
moneybag | (noun) a drawstring bag for holding money | - |
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moneyed | (adjective) based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth | Synonyms: monied |
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(adjective) having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value | Synonyms: affluent, flush, loaded, substantial, wealthy |
moneyer | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, minter |
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moneygrubber | (noun) someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking | - |
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moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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moneyless | (adjective) not based on the possession of money | - |
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(adjective) having no money | - |
moneymaker | (noun) a project that generates a continuous flow of money | Synonyms: cash cow, money-spinner |
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(noun) someone who is successful in accumulating wealth | - |
moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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(adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
(noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
moneyman | (noun) a person skilled in large scale financial transactions | Synonyms: financier |
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moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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mooneye | (noun) recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness | Synonyms: moon blindness |
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phoney | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phony |
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(noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phony, pretender |
shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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(verb) engage in a tourney | - |
vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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whiney | (adjective) habitually complaining | Synonyms: fretful, querulous, whiny |
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winey | (adjective) having the taste of wine | Synonyms: winy |
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