burnoose | (noun) a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors | Synonyms: burnous, burnouse |
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caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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(noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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(verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
(verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
chooser | (noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: picker, selector |
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choosey | (adjective) difficult to please | Synonyms: choosy |
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footloose | (adjective) free to go or do as one pleases | - |
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goose | (noun) web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks | - |
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(noun) flesh of a goose (domestic or wild) | - |
(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany |
(verb) pinch in the buttocks | - |
(verb) give a spurt of fuel to | - |
(verb) prod into action | - |
gooseberry | (noun) currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | - |
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(noun) spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries | Synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa |
goosebump | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, gooseflesh, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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goosefish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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gooseflesh | (noun) reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation | Synonyms: goose bump, goose pimple, goose skin, goosebump, horripilation, pilomotor reflex |
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goosefoot | (noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers | - |
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gooselike | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, goosey, goosy, jerky |
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gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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goosey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosy, jerky |
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hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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loose | (adjective) not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting | - |
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(adjective) not compact or dense in structure or arrangement | - |
(adjective) not affixed | Synonyms: unaffixed |
(adjective) (of textures) full of small openings or gaps | Synonyms: open |
(adjective) not literal | Synonyms: free, liberal |
(adjective) lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility | Synonyms: idle |
(adjective) not tense or taut | Synonyms: slack |
(adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
(adjective) emptying easily or excessively | Synonyms: lax |
(adjective) (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player | - |
(adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: informal |
(adjective) not carefully arranged in a package | - |
(adjective) having escaped, especially from confinement | Synonyms: at large, escaped, on the loose |
(adverb) without restraint | Synonyms: free |
(verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loosen, relax |
(verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loosen |
(verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, unleash |
(verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen |
looseleaf | (adjective) being or having leaves that can be easily removed or rearranged | - |
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loosely | (adverb) in a relaxed manner; not rigid | Synonyms: slackly |
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(adverb) structurally open and not compact or close | - |
(adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, generally |
(adverb) in a loose manner | - |
loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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(verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
(verb) make less dense | - |
(verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
(verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
(verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
(verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
loosened | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: disentangled, unsnarled |
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looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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(noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
(noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
(noun) freedom from restraint | - |
(noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
(noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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(noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
loosestrife | (noun) any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum | - |
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(noun) any of various herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lysimachia | - |
mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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moose | (noun) large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America | Synonyms: Alces alces, elk |
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moosewood | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, ropebark, wicopy |
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(noun) maple of eastern North America with striped bark and large two-lobed leaves clear yellow in autumn | Synonyms: Acer pennsylvanicum, goosefoot maple, moose-wood, striped dogwood, striped maple |
noose | (noun) a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose | Synonyms: gin, snare |
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(noun) a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled | Synonyms: running noose, slip noose |
(verb) secure with a noose | - |
(verb) make a noose in or of | - |
papoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: pappoose |
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papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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schmoose | (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze |
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(verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
shmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmooze |
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unloose | (verb) loosen the ties of | Synonyms: unloosen |
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(verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, release, unloosen |
unloosen | (verb) loosen the ties of | Synonyms: unloose |
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(verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose |
vamoose | (verb) leave suddenly | Synonyms: decamp, skip |
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