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bosh
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n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
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brioche
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n 1: a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet
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cloche
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n 1: a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect
them from cold
2: a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet
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cosh
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n 1: a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle;
used for hitting people [syn: blackjack, cosh, sap]
v 1: hit with a cosh, usually on the head
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josh
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v 1: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just
kidded around" [syn: kid, chaff, jolly, josh,
banter]
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nosh
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n 1: (Yiddish) a snack or light meal
v 1: eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because
she snacks between meals" [syn: nosh, snack]
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pH
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n 1: (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the
reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per
liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the
acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and
greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more
acidic); [syn: pH, pH scale]
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posh
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adj 1: elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy
dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the
Rue du Bac"- Julia Child [syn: classy, posh, swish]
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slosh
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v 1: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"
[syn: splash, splosh, slosh, slush]
2: walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet
meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh,
slosh, slop]
3: spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over
the walls" [syn: slosh, slush, slosh around, slush
around]
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squash
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n 1: any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus
Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits [syn:
squash, squash vine]
2: edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
3: a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who
strike the ball with long-handled rackets [syn: squash,
squash racquets, squash rackets]
v 1: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or
condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn:
squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze]
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swash
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n 1: the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the
beach"
v 1: make violent, noisy movements
2: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the
baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter, plash,
splash, splosh, swash]
3: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line,
brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]
4: act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
[syn: swagger, bluster, swash]
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wash
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n 1: a thin coat of water-base paint
2: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) [syn:
wash, washing, lavation]
3: the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a
canyon) [syn: wash, dry wash]
4: the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water
(as from a roadway); "from the house they watched the washout
of their newly seeded lawn by the water" [syn: washout,
wash]
5: the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft
propeller [syn: slipstream, airstream, race,
backwash, wash]
6: a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes
one over the other [syn: wash, wash drawing]
7: garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
[syn: laundry, wash, washing, washables]
8: any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out; "at the
end of the year the accounting department showed that it was
a wash"
v 1: clean with some chemical process [syn: wash, rinse]
2: cleanse (one's body) with soap and water [syn: wash,
lave]
3: cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash
the towels, please!" [syn: wash, launder]
4: move by or as if by water; "The swollen river washed away the
footbridge"
5: be capable of being washed; "Does this material wash?"
6: admit to testing or proof; "This silly excuse won't wash in
traffic court"
7: separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
8: apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
9: remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap
or some other cleaning agent; "he washed the dirt from his
coat"; "The nurse washed away the blood"; "Can you wash away
the spots on the windows?"; "he managed to wash out the
stains" [syn: wash, wash out, wash off, wash away]
10: form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the
mountainside"
11: make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows" [syn: moisten,
wash, dampen]
12: wash or flow against; "the waves laved the shore" [syn:
lave, lap, wash]
13: to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking; "The cat
washes several times a day"
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boche
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n 1: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn:
Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
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bosch
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n 1: Dutch painter (1450-1516) [syn: Bosch, Hieronymus
Bosch, Jerom Bos]
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splosh
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v 1: make a splashing sound; "water was splashing on the floor"
[syn: splash, splosh, slosh, slush]
2: walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet
meadow" [syn: squelch, squish, splash, splosh,
slosh, slop]
3: cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force;
"She splashed the water around her" [syn: sprinkle,
splash, splosh]
4: dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the
baby's face with water" [syn: spatter, splatter, plash,
splash, splosh, swash]
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tosh
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n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
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h
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n 1: a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a
colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the
simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the
universe [syn: hydrogen, H, atomic number 1]
2: a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force
of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the
rate of one ampere per second [syn: henry, H]
3: the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a
photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-
second [syn: Planck's constant, h]
4: the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: H, h]
5: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the
internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume
and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system
capable of doing mechanical work" [syn: heat content,
total heat, enthalpy, H]
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rh
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n 1: a blood group antigen possessed by Rh-positive people; if
an Rh-negative person receives a blood transfusion from an
Rh-positive person it can result in hemolysis and anemia
[syn: rhesus factor, Rh factor, Rh]
2: a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum
group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with
platinum [syn: rhodium, Rh, atomic number 45]
3: any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and
carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they
stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of
these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a
specific hormone [syn: releasing hormone, RH, releasing
factor, hypothalamic releasing hormone, hypothalamic
releasing factor]
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mph
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n 1: the ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time
spent traveling (in hours) [syn: miles per hour, mph]
2: a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel [syn:
miles per hour, mph]
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aitch
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gosh
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dosh
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foch
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frosh
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kosh
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mccosh
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prakash
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roche
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coth
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