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boggle
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v 1: startle with amazement or fear
2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or
fear
3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn:
flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]
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boondoggle
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n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy
v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
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bottle
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n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other
liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a
narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle,
bottleful]
3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or
formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and
very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle,
nursing bottle]
v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles
2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
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caudal
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adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally,
caudal]
adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage"
[ant: cephalic]
2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike]
3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from
which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the
body"
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cobble
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n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make
roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett]
v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone]
2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
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cockle
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n 1: common edible European bivalve
2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a
strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple,
ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate]
2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
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coddle
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v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby,
coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
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debacle
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n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco]
2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
during the spring or summer
3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle,
drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
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glottal
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adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal
stops"
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gobble
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n 1: the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
v 1: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
[syn: gobble, bolt]
2: make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
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goggle
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v 1: look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape,
gawp, gawk]
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hobble
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n 1: a shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble]
2: the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
[syn: hitch, hobble, limp]
v 1: walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The
old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn:
limp, gimp, hobble, hitch]
2: hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled
by the all-powerful dean"
3: strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a
horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in
unison; "hobble race horses" [syn: hopple, hobble]
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joggle
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n 1: a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent
pieces and holds them together [syn: dowel, dowel pin,
joggle]
2: a slight irregular shaking motion [syn: joggle, jiggle]
v 1: move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse
is putting on the bandage!" [syn: jiggle, joggle,
wiggle]
2: fasten or join with a joggle
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ogle
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v 1: look at with amorous intentions
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throttle
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n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine
[syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve]
2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the
gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal,
gas, throttle, gun]
v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of
this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your
friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit,
bound, confine, throttle]
2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he
tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been
strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle,
strangulate, throttle]
3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke,
throttle]
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toddle
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v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
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toggle
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n 1: any instruction that works first one way and then the
other; it turns something on the first time it is used and
then turns it off the next time
2: a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions [syn:
toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch]
3: a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is
inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a
cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or
chain or cable)
v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles
2: fasten with, or as if with, a toggle
3: release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"
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topple
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v 1: fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade
Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: tumble,
topple]
2: cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: topple,
tumble, tip]
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twaddle
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n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-
tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
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waddle
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n 1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one
foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle"
v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle,
coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
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wobble
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n 1: an unsteady rocking motion
v 1: move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled
down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle]
2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out
of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
3: tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion"
[syn: shimmy, wobble]
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aristotle
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n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers;
pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
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hornswoggle
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v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
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woggle
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popple
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noggle
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sahgal
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vogl
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synagogal
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