| gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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| gondola | (noun) long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice | - |
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| (noun) a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof | Synonyms: gondola car |
| (noun) the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant | Synonyms: car |
| gondolier | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondoliere |
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| gondoliere | (noun) a (Venetian) boatman who propels a gondola | Synonyms: gondolier |
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| gone | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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| (adjective) dead | Synonyms: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed |
| (adjective) destroyed or killed | Synonyms: done for, kaput |
| (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone |
| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| (adjective) used up or no longer available | - |
| goner | (noun) a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | Synonyms: toast |
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| gong | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick | Synonyms: tam-tam |
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| (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, chime |
| (verb) sound a gong | - |
| gonif | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, goniff |
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| goniff | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, gonif |
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| goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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| gonion | (noun) the craniometric point on either side at the apex of the lower jaw | - |
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| gonioscopy | (noun) an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma | - |
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| gonococcus | (noun) the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea | Synonyms: Neisseria gonorrhoeae |
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| gonorrhea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhoea |
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| gonorrhoea | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra | Synonyms: clap, gonorrhea |
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| gonzo | (adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
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| goo | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| goober | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
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| good | (adjective) having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified | - |
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| (adjective) morally admirable | - |
| (adjective) promoting or enhancing well-being | Synonyms: beneficial |
| (adjective) having the normally expected amount | Synonyms: full |
| (adjective) with or in a close or intimate relationship | Synonyms: dear, near |
| (adjective) thorough | - |
| (adjective) generally admired | - |
| (adjective) resulting favorably | Synonyms: well |
| (adjective) not left to spoil | Synonyms: unspoiled, unspoilt |
| (adjective) not forged | Synonyms: honest |
| (adjective) tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health | Synonyms: salutary |
| (adjective) in excellent physical condition | Synonyms: sound |
| (adjective) appealing to the mind | Synonyms: serious |
| (adjective) agreeable or pleasing | - |
| (adjective) exerting force or influence | Synonyms: effective, in effect, in force |
| (adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: right, ripe |
| (adjective) capable of pleasing | - |
| (adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, estimable, honorable, respectable |
| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: just, upright |
| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, practiced, proficient, skilful, skillful |
| (adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: dependable, safe, secure |
| (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: commodity, trade good |
| (noun) benefit | - |
| (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: goodness |
| (noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: goodness |
| (adverb) (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well') | Synonyms: well |
| (adverb) completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly') | Synonyms: soundly, thoroughly |
| goodby | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| goodbye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, sayonara, so long |
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| goodish | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| (adjective) moderately good of its kind | - |
| goodly | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| goodness | (noun) moral excellence or admirableness | Synonyms: good |
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| (noun) that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | Synonyms: good |
| goodwill | (noun) a disposition to kindness and compassion | Synonyms: good will, grace |
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| (noun) the friendly hope that something will succeed | Synonyms: good will |
| (noun) (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets) | Synonyms: good will |
| goody | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, kickshaw, treat |
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| gooey | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: icky |
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| goof | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goofball, merry andrew |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, boob, drop the ball, sin |
| goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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| (noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
| goofproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: foolproof, goof-proof |
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| goofy | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: silly, wacky, whacky, zany |
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| google | (verb) search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine | - |
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| googly | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un |
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| googol | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred) | - |
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| googolplex | (noun) a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by a googol of zeros (ten raised to the power of a googol) | - |
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| gook | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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| goon | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie |
| gooney | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney bird, goonie, goony |
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| goonie | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goony |
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| goony | (noun) a variety of albatross with black feet | Synonyms: black-footed albatross, Diomedea nigripes, gooney, gooney bird, goonie |
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| goop | (noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate | Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, scoop, soap |
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| (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
| goosander | (noun) common merganser of Europe and North America | Synonyms: Mergus merganser |
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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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| goosy | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, jerky |
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| gopher | (noun) burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America | Synonyms: pocket gopher, pouched rat |
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| (noun) burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America | Synonyms: gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus |
| (noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: ground squirrel, spermophile |
| (noun) a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | Synonyms: goffer |
| gopherwood | (noun) small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye | Synonyms: Cladrastis kentukea, Cladrastis lutea, Kentucky yellowwood |
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| goral | (noun) small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains | Synonyms: Naemorhedus goral |
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| gore | (noun) the shedding of blood resulting in murder | Synonyms: bloodshed |
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| (noun) a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails | Synonyms: panel |
| (noun) coagulated blood from a wound | - |
| (verb) cut into gores | - |
| (verb) wound by piercing with a sharp or penetrating object or instrument | - |
| gorge | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gullet, oesophagus |
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| (noun) a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) | - |
| (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: defile |
| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
| gorgeous | (adjective) dazzlingly beautiful | - |
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| gorgeously | (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: magnificently, resplendently, splendidly |
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| gorgeousness | (noun) The characteristic or quality of being very beautiful. | - |
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| gorger | (noun) someone who eats food rapidly and greedily | Synonyms: scoffer |
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| gorgerin | (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: necking |
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| gorget | (noun) armor plate that protects the neck | - |
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| gorgonian | (noun) corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton | Synonyms: gorgonian coral |
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| gorgonzola | (noun) Italian blue cheese | - |
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| gorilla | (noun) largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa | Synonyms: Gorilla gorilla |
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| gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormless | (adjective) (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality | Synonyms: gaumless |
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| gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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| gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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| (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
| goshawk | (noun) large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry | Synonyms: Accipiter gentilis |
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| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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| gosmore | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, capeweed, cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata |
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| gospel | (noun) a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance | - |
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| (noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, creed, religious doctrine |
| (noun) an unquestionable truth | Synonyms: gospel truth |
| (noun) folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul) | Synonyms: gospel singing |
| gospeler | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeller, revivalist |
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| gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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| gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
| (noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
| gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
| (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
| (verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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| gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| gossipy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, newsy |
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| gothic | (adjective) as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened | Synonyms: mediaeval, medieval |
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| (adjective) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque | - |
| gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
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| gouache | (noun) a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum | - |
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| (noun) an opaque watercolor prepared with gum | - |
| gouge | (noun) the act of gouging | - |
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| (noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, nick |
| (verb) force with the thumb | Synonyms: force out |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: rout |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, rack, squeeze, wring |
| gouger | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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| (noun) an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye | - |
| goujon | (noun) large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw | Synonyms: flathead catfish, mudcat, Pylodictus olivaris, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish |
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| goulash | (noun) a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika | Synonyms: gulyas, Hungarian goulash |
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| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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| gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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| gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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| gourmet | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome |
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| gout | (noun) a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints | Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis |
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