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baronetcy
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n 1: the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness
[syn: baronetcy, barony]
2: the title of a baron
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curtsy
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n 1: bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women [syn:
curtsy, curtsey]
v 1: bend the knees in a gesture of respectful greeting [syn:
curtsy, curtsey]
2: make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a
sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's
hand" [syn: curtsy, bob]
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gutsy
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adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of
difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have
to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the
gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith
Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant:
gutless]
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gypsy
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n 1: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by
employment; "itinerant traders" [syn: itinerant, gypsy,
gipsy]
2: a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany
and who traditionally live by seasonal work and
fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in
northern India but now are living on all continents (but
mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) [syn:
Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma,
Bohemian]
3: the Indic language of the Gypsies [syn: Romany, Gypsy]
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pixie
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n 1: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn:
elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp]
2: creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and
early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New
Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: pyxie, pixie, pixy,
Pyxidanthera barbulata]
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pixy
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n 1: creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves
and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of
New Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: pyxie, pixie,
pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata]
2: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: elf,
hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy, brownie, imp]
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ritzy
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adj 1: luxuriously elegant
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tipsy
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adj 1: slightly intoxicated [syn: potty, tiddly, tipsy]
2: unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated; "a tipsy boat"
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tsetse
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n 1: bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
[syn: tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze,
glossina]
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dixie
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n 1: the southern states that seceded from the United States in
1861 [syn: Confederacy, Confederate States,
Confederate States of America, South, Dixie,
Dixieland]
2: a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used
in military camps
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gipsy
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n 1: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by
employment; "itinerant traders" [syn: itinerant, gypsy,
gipsy]
2: a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany
and who traditionally live by seasonal work and
fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in
northern India but now are living on all continents (but
mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) [syn:
Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma,
Bohemian]
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nazi
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adj 1: relating to or consistent with or typical of the ideology
and practice of Nazism or the Nazis; "the total Nazi
crime"; "the Nazi interpretation of history"
2: relating to a form of socialism; "the national socialist
party came to power in Germany in 1933" [syn: national
socialist, Nazi]
n 1: a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party [syn:
Nazi, German Nazi]
2: derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to,
or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc.
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patsy
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n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
[syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy,
sucker, soft touch, mug]
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pyxie
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n 1: creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves
and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of
New Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: pyxie, pixie,
pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata]
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tricksy
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adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a
wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy,
foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy,
tricky, wily]
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yangtze
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n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into
the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang,
Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze
Kiang]
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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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tutsi
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n 1: a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and
Burundi [syn: Tutsi, Watutsi, Watusi]
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abruzzi
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n 1: a mountainous region of central Italy on the Adriatic [syn:
Abruzzi, Abruzzi e Molise]
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etc
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footsie
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itsy
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glitzy
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nixie
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cie
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tootsie
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terrizzi
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betsy
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ditsy
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mitzi
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nitze
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ritcey
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litsey
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pestalozzi
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surtsey
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cornetcy
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