Words that rhyme with clingy

n 1: small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark

n 1: a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled [syn: dinghy, dory, rowboat]

adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy] 2: (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] 3: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]

adj 1: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach" [syn: fringy, marginal]

n 1: a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings 2: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent [syn: wop, dago, ginzo, Guinea, greaseball] 3: a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958 [syn: Guinea, Republic of Guinea, French Guinea] 4: a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world [syn: guinea fowl, guinea, Numida meleagris]

n 1: a short crowbar; "in Britain they call a jimmy and jemmy" [syn: jimmy, jemmy] v 1: to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail" [syn: pry, prise, prize, lever, jimmy]

adj 1: having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap; "a mangy carpet"; "a mangy old fur coat" [syn: mangy, mangey]

adj 1: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight]

adj 1: used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee; "a mini dress"; "miniskirts" [ant: maxi, midi] n 1: a very short skirt [syn: miniskirt, mini]

n 1: a stupid foolish person [syn: nincompoop, poop, ninny]

adj 1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy] 2: adapted to wandering or roaming 3: allowing ample room for ranging

n 1: an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle (especially in the front wheels); "he could feel the shimmy in the steering wheel" 2: a woman's sleeveless undergarment [syn: chemise, shimmy, shift, slip, teddy] 3: lively dancing (usually to ragtime music) with much shaking of the shoulders and hips v 1: tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion" [syn: shimmy, wobble] 2: dance a shimmy

n 1: 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 [syn: shinny, shinney] v 1: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter]

adj 1: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy] 2: of or relating to or resembling skin 3: fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes" [syn: tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny] 4: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny] n 1: confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"

adj 1: constituting or expressed in slang or given to the use of slang; "a slangy expression"; "slangy speech"

adj 1: easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread" [syn: spongy, squashy, squishy, spongelike] 2: like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed [syn: spongy, spongelike]

adj 1: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy] 2: (of movements) light and confidently active; "he walked away with a springy step"

adj 1: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds" [syn: stingy, ungenerous] [ant: generous] 2: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" [syn: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy] [ant: ample]

adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable] 3: forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: ropy, ropey, stringy, thready] 4: consisting of or containing string or strings

adj 1: characterized by a buoyant rhythm; "an easy lilting stride"; "the flute broke into a light lilting air"; "a swinging pace"; "a graceful swingy walk"; "a tripping singing measure" [syn: lilting, swinging, swingy, tripping]

adj 1: tasting sour like a lemon [syn: lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart]

adj 1: of or containing tin 2: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny] 3: thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance; "an unpleasant tinny voice"

n 1: the characteristic sounds made by a horse [syn: neigh, nicker, whicker, whinny] v 1: make a characteristic sound, of a horse [syn: neigh, nicker, whicker, whinny]

adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]

n 1: United States photographer remembered for her portraits of rural workers during the Depression (1895-1965) [syn: Lange, Dorothea Lange]

n 1: an elasticized rope [syn: bungee, bungee cord]

adj 1: having many worn or threadbare spots in the nap; "a mangy carpet"; "a mangy old fur coat" [syn: mangy, mangey]