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birdie
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n 1: (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole
2: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber
with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird,
birdie, shuttle]
v 1: shoot in one stroke under par
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de
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n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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dirty
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adj 1: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty
unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty
slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on
the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a
dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her
sisters preened themselves" [syn: dirty, soiled,
unclean] [ant: clean]
2: (of behavior or especially language) characterized by
obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man";
"dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a
dirty mouth" [ant: clean, unobjectionable]
3: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy
traitor" [syn: dirty, filthy, lousy]
4: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive
contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty";
"a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived
radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant:
clean, uncontaminating]
5: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds";
"obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn:
dirty, pestiferous]
6: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;
"dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy)
white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors";
"dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty,
dingy, muddied, muddy]
7: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty)
copy" [syn: dirty, foul, marked-up]
8: obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-
gotten gains" [syn: dirty, ill-gotten]
9: expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"
10: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter";
"used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve";
"fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a),
dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
11: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid
political campaign" [syn: dirty, sordid]
12: unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
v 1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes
when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime,
grime, colly, bemire] [ant: clean, make clean]
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jerky
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adj 1: lacking a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat" [syn:
arrhythmic, jerking, jerky]
2: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn: choppy,
jerky]
3: having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine
behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea
about rewriting authors' books" [syn: anserine, dopy,
dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky]
n 1: meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
[syn: jerky, jerked meat, jerk]
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murky
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adj 1: (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid";
"muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: cloudy, muddy,
mirky, murky, turbid]
2: dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-
blackened lamps" [syn: murky, mirky]
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perky
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adj 1: characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness;
"buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor";
"looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little
widow in her 70s" [syn: buoyant, chirpy, perky]
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sturdy
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adj 1: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or
hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud
of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young
athletes" [syn: hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy]
2: not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the
peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty" [syn:
uncompromising, sturdy, inflexible] [ant:
compromising, conciliatory, flexible]
3: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves";
"sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics
are as tough as metal" [syn: sturdy, tough]
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thirty
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adj 1: being ten more than twenty [syn: thirty, 30, xxx]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
[syn: thirty, 30, XXX]
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wordy
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adj 1: using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or
windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional
methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy
editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"
[syn: long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy,
wordy]
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d
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
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dea
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n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
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ciardi
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n 1: United States poet and critic (1916-1986) [syn: Ciardi,
John Ciardi, John Anthony Ciardi]
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paloverde
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n 1: a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry
parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent
Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow
flowers and small leaves
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lombardy
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n 1: a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland [syn:
Lombardy, Lombardia]
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herby
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verde
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mccurdy
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ferdie
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murdy
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nerdy
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purdie
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purdy
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verdes
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curdy
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