| sawfish | (noun) primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout | - |
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| scarecrowish | (adjective) resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged | - |
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| schoolboyish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young boy | Synonyms: boyish, boylike |
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| schoolgirlish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a young girl | Synonyms: girlish |
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| scorpionfish | (noun) marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines | Synonyms: scorpion fish, sea scorpion |
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| selfish | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving |
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| shadbush | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadblow |
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| sheatfish | (noun) large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe | Synonyms: European catfish, Silurus glanis |
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| sheepish | (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: shamefaced |
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| (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheeplike |
| shellfish | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, mollusk |
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| (noun) meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | - |
| shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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| shrewish | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: nagging |
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| shrimpfish | (noun) slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates | Synonyms: shrimp-fish |
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| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| sickish | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick |
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| silverbush | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverberry |
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| (noun) silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Anthyllis barba-jovis, Jupiter's beard, silver-bush |
| silverfish | (noun) a silvery variety of Carassius auratus | - |
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| (noun) silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing | Synonyms: Lepisma saccharina |
| silverish | (adjective) of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver | Synonyms: argent, silver, silvery |
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| sissyish | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy |
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| skilletfish | (noun) clingfish with typical skillet shape | Synonyms: Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish |
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| skirmish | (noun) a minor short-term fight | Synonyms: brush, clash, encounter |
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| (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
| skittish | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, spooky |
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| skunkbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, squaw-bush, squawbush |
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| slapdash | (adjective) marked by great carelessness | Synonyms: haphazard, slipshod, sloppy |
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| (adverb) in a careless or reckless manner | Synonyms: slam-bang |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, bolt, slap, smack |
| slash | (noun) a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: gash |
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| (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule |
| (noun) an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind) | - |
| (noun) a wound made by cutting | Synonyms: cut, gash, slice |
| (verb) cut drastically | - |
| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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| (adjective) blindly imitative | - |
| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| sluggish | (adjective) slow and apathetic | Synonyms: inert, soggy, torpid |
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| (adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, slow |
| (adjective) slow or slothful | Synonyms: sulky |
| slush | (noun) partially melted snow | - |
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| (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| sluttish | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, wanton |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly |
| smallish | (adjective) rather small | - |
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| smash | (noun) the act of colliding with something | Synonyms: crash |
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| (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smasher, strike |
| (noun) a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head | Synonyms: overhead |
| (noun) a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles) | Synonyms: smash-up |
| (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, belt, knock |
| (adverb) with a loud crash | Synonyms: smashingly |
| (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow | - |
| (verb) overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful) | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, nail |
| (verb) collide or strike violently and suddenly | - |
| (verb) hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence | Synonyms: bang up, smash up |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) hit violently | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin |
| snailfish | (noun) small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish | Synonyms: Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail |
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| snakefish | (noun) tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide | Synonyms: lizardfish, snake-fish |
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| snappish | (adjective) apt to speak irritably | Synonyms: snappy |
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| snipefish | (noun) small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth | Synonyms: bellows fish |
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| snobbish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby |
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| soapfish | (noun) fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America | - |
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| softish | (adjective) somewhat soft | Synonyms: semisoft |
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| soldierfish | (noun) the larger squirrelfishes | Synonyms: soldier-fish |
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| sottish | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, drunken |
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| sourish | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, lemony, tangy, tart |
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| spadefish | (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber |
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| spearfish | (noun) any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
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| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| splash | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splashing |
| (noun) a patch of bright color | - |
| (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: plash |
| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splatter |
| (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| splosh | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, sprinkle |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splash |
| squarish | (adjective) somewhat square in appearance or form | - |
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| squash | (noun) a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | Synonyms: squash rackets, squash racquets |
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| (noun) edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable | - |
| (noun) any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | Synonyms: squash vine |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
| squawbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of California with unpleasantly scented usually trifoliate leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Rhus trilobata, skunkbush, squaw-bush |
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| squeamish | (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: dainty, nice, overnice, prissy |
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| squirrelfish | (noun) very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | - |
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| (noun) similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States | Synonyms: Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice |
| squish | (noun) the noise of soft mud being walked on | - |
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| (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
| staggerbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock | Synonyms: Lyonia mariana, stagger bush |
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| standoffish | (adjective) lacking cordiality; unfriendly | Synonyms: offish |
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| starfish | (noun) echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk | Synonyms: sea star |
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| stash | (noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: cache, hoard |
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| (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away |
| steepish | (adjective) somewhat steep | - |
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| stockfish | (noun) fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt | - |
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| stonefish | (noun) venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock | Synonyms: Synanceja verrucosa |
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| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| stylish | (adjective) having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress | Synonyms: fashionable |
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| (adjective) being or in accordance with current social fashions | Synonyms: fashionable |
| succotash | (noun) fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream | - |
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| suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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| sunfish | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: centrarchid |
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| (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: headfish, mola, ocean sunfish |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae | - |
| surffish | (noun) small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, surfperch |
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| (noun) a fish of the Pacific coast of North America | Synonyms: surf fish, Umbrina roncador, yellowfin croaker |
| surgeonfish | (noun) brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail | - |
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| swash | (noun) the movement or sound of water | - |
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| (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| sweetish | (adjective) somewhat sweet | - |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swish | (adjective) elegant and fashionable | Synonyms: classy, posh |
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| (noun) a brushing or rustling sound | - |
| (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |
| swoosh | (noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid) | Synonyms: whoosh |
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| (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swosh |
| swordfish | (noun) large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night | Synonyms: Xiphias gladius |
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| (noun) flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks | - |
| swosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swoosh |
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| synchroflash | (noun) a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter | - |
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| synchromesh | (noun) an automotive system for shifting gears in which the gears revolve at the same speed and so shift smoothly | - |
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| tallish | (adjective) somewhat tall | - |
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| tanglebush | (noun) spiny branching deciduous shrub of southwestern United States having clusters of insignificant yellow-white flowers appearing before leaves followed by attractive black berrylike fruits | Synonyms: desert olive, Forestiera neomexicana |
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| tannish | (adjective) of a color resembling tan | - |
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| tarboosh | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: fez |
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| tarnish | (noun) discoloration of metal surface caused by oxidation | - |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
| thievish | (adjective) given to thievery | Synonyms: thieving |
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| thrash | (noun) a swimming kick used while treading water | - |
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| (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |
| threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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| thresh | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash |
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| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thrash |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: flail |
| thrush | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | - |
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| (noun) a woman who sings popular songs | - |
| (noun) candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults | - |
| ticklish | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, touchy |
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| tigerish | (adjective) resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy | - |
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| tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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| (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |
| toadfish | (noun) bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth | Synonyms: Opsanus tau |
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| toadyish | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, obsequious, sycophantic |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, fawning, sycophantic |
| tokenish | (adjective) insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) | Synonyms: nominal, token |
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| tomboyish | (adjective) used of girls; wild and boisterous | Synonyms: hoydenish |
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| tonguefish | (noun) left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value | Synonyms: tongue-fish |
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| toothbrush | (noun) small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth | - |
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| (noun) slang for a mustache | Synonyms: soup-strainer |
| tosh | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, twaddle |
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| trash | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu |
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| (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
| (noun) worthless people | Synonyms: scum |
| (noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, scrap |
| (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: pan, tear apart |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, scrap |
| triggerfish | (noun) any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin | - |
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| trumpetfish | (noun) tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down | Synonyms: Aulostomus maculatus |
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| trunkfish | (noun) any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates | Synonyms: boxfish |
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