bedraggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: draggle |
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boggle | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: bowl over, flabbergast |
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(verb) startle with amazement or fear | - |
(verb) hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear | - |
boondoggle | (noun) work of little or no value done merely to look busy | - |
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(verb) do useless, wasteful, or trivial work | - |
coggle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: dodder, paddle, toddle, totter, waddle |
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(verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: wobble |
draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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gaggle | (noun) a flock of geese | - |
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(verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: cackle |
giggle | (noun) a foolish or nervous laugh | - |
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(verb) laugh nervously | Synonyms: titter |
goggle | (verb) look with amazement; look stupidly | Synonyms: gape, gawk, gawp |
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guggle | (verb) drink from a flask with a gurgling sound | Synonyms: gurgle |
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(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, gurgle, ripple |
(verb) make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle | - |
haggle | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggling, wrangle, wrangling |
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(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, higgle, huckster |
higgle | (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, huckster |
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hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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jiggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: joggle |
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(verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
joggle | (noun) a slight irregular shaking motion | Synonyms: jiggle |
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(noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel, dowel pin |
(verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
(verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
juggle | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggling |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggling |
(verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
(verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
(verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
(verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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(verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
smuggle | (verb) import or export without paying customs duties | - |
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snuggle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: cuddle, nestle |
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(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle |
(verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: nestle |
squiggle | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: curlicue |
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(noun) an illegible scrawl | - |
straggle | (noun) a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) | - |
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(verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, sidetrack |
(verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: sprawl |
struggle | (noun) strenuous effort | - |
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(noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: battle |
(noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, conflict |
(verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
(verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
(verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
toggle | (noun) a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) | - |
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(noun) a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions | Synonyms: on-off switch, on/off switch, toggle switch |
(noun) any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time | - |
(verb) fasten with, or as if with, a toggle | - |
(verb) release by a toggle switch | - |
(verb) provide with a toggle or toggles | - |
waggle | (noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side | Synonyms: shake, wag |
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(verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
(verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
wiggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wriggle |
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(verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, joggle |
wriggle | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: squirm, wiggle |
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(verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wrestle, writhe |