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babbling
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n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble,
babbling, lallation]
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brambling
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n 1: Eurasian finch [syn: brambling, Fringilla
montifringilla]
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bumbling
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adj 1: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the
hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance";
"ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely
empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor
creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling,
butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
heavy-handed, left-handed]
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crackling
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n 1: the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered
[syn: greaves, crackling]
2: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle,
crackling, crepitation]
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doubling
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n 1: increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took
no time at all"
2: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I
decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double]
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enabling
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adj 1: providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling
resolution"; "enabling power" [ant: disabling,
disqualifying]
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goblin
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n 1: (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that
makes trouble for human beings [syn: goblin, hob,
hobgoblin]
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grappling
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n 1: the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had
a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling
with the bully" [syn: wrestle, wrestling, grapple,
grappling, hand-to-hand struggle]
2: the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed
contestants who try to throw each other down [syn:
wrestling, rassling, grappling]
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haggling
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n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn:
haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]
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hobgoblin
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n 1: (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that
makes trouble for human beings [syn: goblin, hob,
hobgoblin]
2: an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a
bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson [syn: bugbear,
hobgoblin]
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marbling
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n 1: the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
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rambling
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adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling
handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"
[syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly]
2: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main
point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly
digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among
other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive
remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn:
digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling]
3: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest
paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding
country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling,
wandering(a), winding]
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sapling
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n 1: young tree
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sculling
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n 1: rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell
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tumbling
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n 1: the gymnastic moves of an acrobat [syn: acrobatics,
tumbling]
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lublin
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n 1: an industrial city of eastern Poland
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battling
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cackling
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cradling
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culling
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dabbling
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dulling
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fatling
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flatling
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giggling
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gulling
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hulling
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mulling
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paddling
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quibbling
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stapling
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straddling
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tabling
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tackling
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waggling
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lulling
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blinn
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grambling
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amblin
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blin
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chamblin
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gamblin
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hamblin
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shamblin
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tamblyn
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noblin
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roblin
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giblin
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eblin
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lyublin
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scumbling
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timblin
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tomblin
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