Words that rhyme with ditchdigger

n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]

adj 1: large or big relative to something else [syn: bigger, larger]

adv 1: extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter] adj 1: marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce" [syn: acrimonious, bitter] 2: very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow" 3: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic] 4: expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears" 5: proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies" 6: causing a sharp and acrid taste experience;"quinine is bitter" 7: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter] n 1: English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) 2: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth [syn: bitter, bitterness] 3: the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn: bitterness, bitter] v 1: make bitter

n 1: small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans [syn: chigoe, chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans] 2: larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation [syn: harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug]

adj 1: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty]

n 1: (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion" [syn: limiter, clipper] 2: a fast sailing ship used in former times [syn: clipper, clipper ship] 3: shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural) 4: scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)

n 1: a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)

n 1: a laborer who digs 2: a machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator, digger, shovel]

v 1: mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue" [syn: deface, disfigure, blemish]

n 1: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap] v 1: act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain 2: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, flap, pother]

n 1: a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2" [syn: figure, fig] 2: alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh] 3: one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; "0 and 1 are digits" [syn: digit, figure] 4: a model of a bodily form (especially of a person); "he made a figure of Santa Claus" 5: a well-known or notable person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France"; "she is an important figure in modern music" [syn: name, figure, public figure] 6: a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape 7: an amount of money expressed numerically; "a figure of $17 was suggested" 8: the impression produced by a person; "he cut a fine figure"; "a heroic figure" 9: the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand" [syn: number, figure] 10: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: trope, figure of speech, figure, image] 11: a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground [ant: ground] 12: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors" [syn: design, pattern, figure] 13: a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures" v 1: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 2: be or play a part of or in; "Elections figure prominently in every government program"; "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?" [syn: figure, enter] 3: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image] 4: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 5: understand; "He didn't figure her"

n 1: a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey [syn: shot glass, jigger, pony] 2: any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl [syn: jiggermast, jigger] 3: larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation [syn: harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug]

n 1: (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn: nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra]

n 1: a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull

v 1: imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured" 2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]

n 1: someone who rigs ships 2: a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists [syn: rigger, rigger brush] 3: someone who works on an oil rig [syn: rigger, oil rigger] 4: a sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger"

n 1: someone who ships goods 2: a company in the business of shipping freight

n 1: a drinker who sips

n 1: Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) [syn: Sitter, Willem de Sitter] 2: an organism (person or animal) that sits [ant: stander] 3: a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter] 4: a person who poses for a painter or sculptor [syn: artist's model, sitter] 5: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, sitter]

n 1: a student who fails to attend classes 2: an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship [syn: master, captain, sea captain, skipper] 3: the naval officer in command of a military ship [syn: captain, skipper] v 1: work as the skipper on a vessel

v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle] 2: glide easily along a surface 3: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter] 4: twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

n 1: a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof [syn: oilskin, slicker] 2: a person with good manners and stylish clothing 3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]

n 1: low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors [syn: slipper, carpet slipper] 2: a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction [syn: skidder, slider, slipper]

n 1: a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger] v 1: laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]

n 1: a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger] v 1: laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]

n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] 2: an adhesive label [syn: gummed label, sticker, paster] 3: a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem [syn: poser, stumper, toughie, sticker] 4: a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: dagger, sticker]

v 1: elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration [syn: transfigure, glorify, spiritualize] 2: change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify]

n 1: lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun [syn: gun trigger, trigger] 2: a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen 3: an act that sets in motion some course of events [syn: trigger, induction, initiation] v 1: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off] 2: release or pull the trigger on; "Trigger a gun"

n 1: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip] 2: active strength of body or mind [syn: vigor, vigour, dynamism, heartiness] 3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

v 1: make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: chitter, twitter]

n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour] 3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]

n 1: a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) [syn: spitter, expectorator] 2: an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it [syn: spitball, spitter]

n 1: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip] 2: active strength of body or mind [syn: vigor, vigour, dynamism, heartiness] 3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

n 1: a person who earns a living by digging graves