| bole | (noun) the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber | Synonyms: tree trunk, trunk |
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| (noun) a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) | - |
| bolero | (noun) a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets | - |
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| (noun) a short jacket; worn mostly by women | - |
| (noun) music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance | - |
| bolete | (noun) any fungus of the family Boletaceae | - |
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| bolide | (noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: fireball |
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| bolivar | (noun) the basic unit of money in Venezuela; equal to 100 centimos | - |
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| bolivia | (noun) a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded | - |
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| boliviano | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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| bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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| bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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| bolo | (noun) long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin | Synonyms: bolo knife |
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| (noun) a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie | Synonyms: bola, bola tie, bolo tie |
| bologna | (noun) large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork | Synonyms: Bologna sausage |
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| bologram | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bolograph |
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| bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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| bolographic | (adjective) of or relating to a bolograph | - |
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| bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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| bolometric | (adjective) of or relating to a bolometer | - |
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| boloney | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
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| bolshevise | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevize, communise, communize |
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| bolshevize | (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, communise, communize |
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| bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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| bolshy | (adjective) obstreperous | Synonyms: stroppy |
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| (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, Marxist, red |
| bolster | (noun) a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows | Synonyms: long pillow |
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| (verb) add padding to | Synonyms: pad |
| (verb) support and strengthen | Synonyms: bolster up |
| (verb) prop up with a pillow or bolster | - |
| bolt | (noun) a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: dash |
| (noun) a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | - |
| (noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: deadbolt |
| (noun) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | - |
| (noun) a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | - |
| (noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt of lightning, thunderbolt |
| (adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, slap, slapdash, smack |
| (adverb) in a rigid manner | Synonyms: rigidly, stiffly |
| (verb) make or roll into bolts | - |
| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: gobble |
| (verb) swallow hastily | - |
| (verb) secure or lock with a bolt | - |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly | - |
| (verb) leave suddenly and as if in a hurry | Synonyms: beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out |
| (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
| bolti | (noun) important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor | Synonyms: Tilapia nilotica |
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| bolus | (noun) a large pill; used especially in veterinary medicine | - |
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| (noun) a small round soft mass (as of chewed food) | - |
| bomb | (noun) an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions | - |
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| (noun) strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion | Synonyms: bomb calorimeter |
| (noun) an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual | Synonyms: dud, turkey |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bombard |
| (verb) fail to get a passing grade | Synonyms: fail, flunk, flush it |
| bombard | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombardon |
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| (verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
| (verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
| (verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| bombardment | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling |
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| (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombing |
| (noun) the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) | - |
| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring |
| bombardon | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombard |
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| (noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: helicon |
| bombast | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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| bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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| (adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
| bombazine | (noun) a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted | - |
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| bomber | (noun) a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight | - |
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| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
| (noun) a person who plants bombs | - |
| bombie | (noun) an unexploded bomblet | - |
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| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombilation | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombination, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| bombination | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, buzz |
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| bombing | (noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombardment |
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| (noun) the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists | - |
| bomblet | (noun) one of the smaller bombs that are released from a cluster bomb | Synonyms: cluster bomblet |
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| bombproof | (adjective) able to resist the explosive force of bombs and shells | Synonyms: shellproof |
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| (noun) a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids | Synonyms: air-raid shelter, bomb shelter |
| (verb) make safe against bombings | - |
| bombshell | (noun) an explosive bomb or artillery shell | - |
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| (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: thunderbolt, thunderclap |
| (noun) an entertainer who has a sensational effect | - |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| bombycid | (noun) moderate-sized Asiatic moth whose larvae feed on mulberry leaves and produce silk | Synonyms: bombycid moth, silkworm moth |
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| bonanza | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| (noun) an especially rich vein of precious ore | - |
| bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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| bonbon | (noun) a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate | - |
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| bonce | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| bond | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: hamper, shackle, trammel |
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| (noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: attachment |
| (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness |
| (noun) an electrical force linking atoms | Synonyms: chemical bond |
| (noun) a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal | Synonyms: bond certificate |
| (noun) (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial | Synonyms: bail, bail bond |
| (noun) a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest | Synonyms: alliance |
| (noun) a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents | Synonyms: bond paper |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
| (verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
| (verb) issue bonds on | - |
| (verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
| bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
| bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
| bonderise | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderize |
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| bonderize | (verb) coat with a substance that will prevent corrosion | Synonyms: bonderise |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
| (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| bondman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondsman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondsman |
| bondsman | (noun) a male slave | Synonyms: bondman |
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| (noun) a male bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondman |
| (noun) a male who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
| (noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
| bonduc | (noun) tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries | Synonyms: bonduc tree, Caesalpinia bonduc, Caesalpinia bonducella |
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| (noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicot, Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky coffee tree |
| bondwoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondswoman |
| bone | (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | - |
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| (noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: ivory, off-white, pearl |
| (noun) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates | Synonyms: os |
| (noun) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made | Synonyms: osseous tissue |
| (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
| (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
| boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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| (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
| bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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| bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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| boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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| boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
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| bonelet | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicle, ossiculum |
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| bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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| bonemeal | (noun) fertilizer made of ground bones | - |
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| boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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| bones | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: castanets, clappers, finger cymbals |
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| boneset | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
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| (noun) European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America | Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale |
| bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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| boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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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 |
| bonfire | (noun) a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration | Synonyms: balefire |
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| bong | (noun) a dull resonant sound as of a bell | - |
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| (verb) ring loudly and deeply | - |
| bongo | (noun) large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns | Synonyms: Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus |
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| (noun) a small drum; played with the hands | Synonyms: bongo drum |
| bonheur | (noun) (French) happiness and good humor | - |
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| bonhomie | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality |
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| boniface | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: host, innkeeper |
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| boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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| bonito | (noun) any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas | - |
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| (noun) fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna | Synonyms: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito |
| (noun) flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna | - |
| bonk | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| bonkers | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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| bonnet | (noun) a hat tied under the chin | Synonyms: poke bonnet |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: cowl, cowling, hood |
| (verb) dress in a bonnet | - |
| bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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| bonnie | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonny, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bonnily | (adverb) in a bonny manner | - |
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| bonny | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bonobo | (noun) small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species | Synonyms: Pan paniscus, pygmy chimpanzee |
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| bonsai | (noun) a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot | - |
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