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bagel
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n 1: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with
hard crust [syn: bagel, beigel]
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astraddle
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adv 1: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair"
[syn: astride, astraddle]
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babble
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n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble,
babbling, lallation]
v 1: utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an
incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay
attention"
2: to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the
baby" [syn: babble, blather, smatter, blether,
blither]
3: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling
brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble,
bubble, gurgle]
4: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his
secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of
the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble,
sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth
shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
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battle
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n 1: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course
of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of
Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he
got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict,
fight, engagement]
2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through
the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for
recognition" [syn: struggle, battle]
3: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
"the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--
Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the
pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle,
battle]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
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bedraggle
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v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle,
draggle]
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brattle
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v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter,
clack, brattle]
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cackle
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n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter,
cackle]
3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when
they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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cattle
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n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or
age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come
home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of
oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
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chapel
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n 1: a place of worship that has its own altar
2: a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own
altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service,
chapel]
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chattel
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n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable
property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn:
chattel, personal chattel, movable]
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crackle
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adj 1: having the surface decorated with a network of fine
cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"
n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle,
crackling, crepitation]
2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
[syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china]
v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the
bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle]
2: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the
gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle]
3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of
small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
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dabble
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v 1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn:
dabble, paddle, splash around]
3: work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in
astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never
makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around]
4: bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body
of water; "dabbling ducks"
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gabble
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n 1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber, jabbering,
gabble]
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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rabble
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n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout]
2: disparaging terms for the common people [syn: rabble,
riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail]
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scrabble
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n 1: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle]
2: a board game in which words are formed from letters in
patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a
value and those values are used to score the game
v 1: feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark"
[syn: grope for, scrabble]
2: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn:
scribble, scrabble]
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babel
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n 1: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants
(probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to
heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they
could no longer understand one another [syn: Tower of
Babel, Babel]
2: a confusion of voices and other sounds
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brabble
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v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
[syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker,
squabble, brabble]
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schnabel
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n 1: United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted
for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and
Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951) [syn: Schnabel, Artur
Schnabel]
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psychobabble
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n 1: using language loaded with psychological terminology
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drabble
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grabble
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crabill
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fabel
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habel
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kabel
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rabel
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schabel
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bedabble
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beall
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gabelle
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