chammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
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chummy | (adjective) (used informally) associated on close terms | Synonyms: buddy-buddy, thick |
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(adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: matey, pally, palsy-walsy |
clammy | (adjective) unpleasantly cool and humid | Synonyms: dank |
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crummy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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dummy | (adjective) having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function | - |
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(noun) a figure representing the human form | - |
(noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank, blank shell |
(noun) an ignorant or foolish person | Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dumbbell, pinhead |
(noun) a person who does not talk | Synonyms: silent person |
(verb) make a dummy of | Synonyms: dummy up |
gammy | (adjective) (British informal) sore or lame | - |
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gummy | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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(adjective) covered with adhesive gum | Synonyms: gummed |
hammy | (adjective) affectedly dramatic; overacted | - |
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jemmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jimmy |
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jimmy | (noun) a short crowbar | Synonyms: jemmy |
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(verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
mammy | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma, mummy |
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(noun) an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S. | - |
mommy | (noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mum, mumma, mummy |
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mummy | (noun) a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt) | - |
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(noun) informal terms for a mother | Synonyms: ma, mama, mamma, mammy, mom, momma, mommy, mum, mumma |
plummy | (adjective) (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich | - |
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(adjective) very desirable | - |
pommy | (noun) a disparaging term for a British person | Synonyms: pom |
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rummy | (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, singular |
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(noun) a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards | Synonyms: rum |
(noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, sot, wino |
scummy | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, miserable, scurvy |
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(adjective) covered with scum | - |
shammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy leather |
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shimmy | (noun) lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips | - |
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(noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, slip, teddy |
(noun) an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels) | - |
(verb) dance a shimmy | - |
(verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
slummy | (adjective) (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty | - |
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tammy | (noun) plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains | - |
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(noun) a woolen cap of Scottish origin | Synonyms: tam-o'-shanter, tam |
thingummy | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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tummy | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, stomach, tum |
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(noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly |
whammy | (noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: curse, hex, jinx |
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(noun) a serious or devastating setback | - |
yummy | (adjective) extremely pleasing to the sense of taste | Synonyms: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome |
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