| shiatsu | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: acupressure, G-Jo |
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| shibah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shiva, shivah |
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| shibboleth | (noun) a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people | - |
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| (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: catchword, motto, slogan |
| shield | (noun) hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles | Synonyms: carapace, cuticle, shell |
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| (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: buckler |
| (noun) a protective covering or structure | - |
| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, harbour |
| shielded | (adjective) (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury | - |
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| shielder | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, protector |
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| shielding | (noun) the act of shielding from harm | - |
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| (noun) a shield of lead or concrete intended as a barrier to radiation emitted in nuclear decay | - |
| (noun) shield consisting of an arrangement of metal mesh or plates designed to protect electronic equipment from ambient electromagnetic interference | - |
| shift | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | Synonyms: switch, switching |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, sack |
| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| (noun) the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters | Synonyms: shift key |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: displacement |
| (noun) a qualitative change | Synonyms: transformation, transmutation |
| (noun) a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time | - |
| (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault |
| (noun) the time period during which you are at work | Synonyms: duty period, work shift |
| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
| shifter | (noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears | Synonyms: gear lever, gearshift, gearstick |
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| (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: sceneshifter |
| shiftily | (adverb) in a shifty manner | - |
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| shiftiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, slipperiness, trickiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being changeable in direction | - |
| shifting | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: unfirm |
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| (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifty |
| (adjective) continuously varying | - |
| (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
| shiftless | (adjective) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative | - |
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| shiftlessness | (noun) a failure to be active as a consequence of lack of initiative or ambition | - |
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| shifty | (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifting |
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| (adjective) characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive | Synonyms: devious |
| shigella | (noun) rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon | - |
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| shigellosis | (noun) an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains | Synonyms: bacillary dysentery |
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| shiitake | (noun) edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe | Synonyms: Chinese black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, shiitake mushroom |
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| shiksa | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shikse |
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| shikse | (noun) a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women | Synonyms: shiksa |
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| shill | (noun) a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others | - |
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| (verb) act as a shill | - |
| shillalah | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillelagh |
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| shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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| shilling | (noun) an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound | - |
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| (noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: bob, British shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Kenyan shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Somalian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Tanzanian shilling |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Ugandan shilling |
| shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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| (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shim | (noun) a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices | - |
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| shimmer | (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: play |
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| (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| shimmery | (adjective) glistening tremulously | - |
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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 |
| shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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| (noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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| shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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| shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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| shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
| (verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
| (verb) be clear and obvious | - |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
| shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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| (noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
| (noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
| (noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
| shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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| (noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
| (noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
| (verb) cover with shingles | - |
| shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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| shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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| shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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| (noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shininess | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, sheen |
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| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
| shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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| shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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| shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
| shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |
| ship | (noun) a vessel that carries passengers or freight | - |
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| (verb) place on board a ship | - |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, transport |
| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: embark |
| (verb) travel by ship | - |
| (verb) hire for work on a ship | - |
| shipboard | (adjective) casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship | - |
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| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
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| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shipbuilding | (noun) the construction of ships | Synonyms: ship building |
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| shipload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, carload |
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| shipmate | (noun) an associate on the same ship with you | - |
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| shipment | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload |
| shipowner | (noun) someone who owns a ship or a share in a ship | - |
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| shipper | (noun) a company in the business of shipping freight | - |
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| (noun) someone who ships goods | - |
| shipping | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: transport, transportation |
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| (noun) conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry | Synonyms: cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels |
| shipshape | (adjective) characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder | Synonyms: trim, well-kept |
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| shipside | (noun) the part of a wharf that is next to a ship | - |
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| shipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: slipway, ways |
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| (noun) a canal large enough for seagoing vessels | Synonyms: ship canal |
| shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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| shipwreck | (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one) | - |
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| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: wreck |
| (noun) an irretrievable loss | - |
| (verb) destroy a ship | - |
| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| shipyard | (noun) a workplace where ships are built or repaired | - |
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| shire | (noun) British breed of large heavy draft horse | Synonyms: shire horse |
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| (noun) a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county | - |
| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shirr | (verb) bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set | - |
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| shirring | (noun) baking shelled eggs | - |
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| shirt | (noun) a garment worn on the upper half of the body | - |
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| (verb) put a shirt on | - |
| shirtdress | (noun) a dress that is tailored like a shirt and has buttons all the way down the front | - |
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| shirtfront | (noun) a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt | Synonyms: dickey, dickie, dicky |
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| (noun) the front of a shirt (usually the part not covered by a jacket) | - |
| shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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| shirtlifter | (noun) a homosexual man | Synonyms: gay man |
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| shirtmaker | (noun) a maker of shirts | - |
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| shirtsleeve | (noun) the sleeve of a shirt | - |
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| shirtsleeves | (noun) not wearing a jacket | - |
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| shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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| (noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
| shirtwaist | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaister |
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| shirtwaister | (noun) a blouse with buttons down the front | Synonyms: shirtwaist |
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| shirty | (adjective) (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed | Synonyms: snorty |
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| shisha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, water pipe |
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| shit | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: dump |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, squat |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shite, turd |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| shite | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, turd |
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| shithead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull |
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| shitless | (adjective) (used as complement) to the utmost degree | Synonyms: witless |
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| shitlist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, blacklist |
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| shitpost | (noun) A poor quality and controversial Internet post | - |
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| shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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| shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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| shitter | (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, voider |
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| shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
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| shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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| (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
| (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
| shittiness | (noun) (vulgar, colloquial) The state or condition of being very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | - |
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| shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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| shitty | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, stinking, stinky |
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| shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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| shiv | (noun) a knife used as a weapon | - |
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