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boodle
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n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread,
cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale,
lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf,
scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and
king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a
separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in
his hand and successively higher cards are played until the
sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in
the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan,
Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]
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brutal
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adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict
pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal
beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod
treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious
kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell,
roughshod, savage, vicious]
2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn:
brutal, unrelenting]
3: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull
and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn:
beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
4: disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal
honesty"
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bugle
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n 1: a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls
and fanfares
2: any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen
herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugle,
bugleweed]
3: a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for
decoration
v 1: play on a bugle
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caboodle
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n 1: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole
caboodle" [syn: bunch, lot, caboodle]
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centrifugal
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adj 1: tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force"
[ant: centripetal]
2: tending away from centralization, as of authority; "the
division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-
increasing centrifugal stress"
3: conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor
nerves" [syn: centrifugal, motor(a)]
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doodle
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n 1: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle]
v 1: make a doodle; draw aimlessly
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feudal
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism [syn:
feudal, feudalistic]
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frugal
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adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical
shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing
father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat
and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty
because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is
used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal,
scotch, sparing, stinting]
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fugal
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adj 1: of or relating to or in the style of a musical fugue
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futile
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adj 1: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual,
otiose, unavailing]
2: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain
attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile,
sleeveless, vain]
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noodle
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n 1: a ribbonlike strip of pasta
2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean,
bonce, noodle, noggin, dome]
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poodle
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n 1: an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat
that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as
sporting dogs or as performing dogs [syn: poodle, poodle
dog]
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rouble
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Russia [syn: ruble, rouble]
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scruple
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n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains
2: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple,
qualm, misgiving]
3: an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
v 1: hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure
himself"
2: raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it"
3: have doubts about
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tubal
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adj 1: of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the
Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube; "tubal ligation";
"tubal pregnancy"
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fugle
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coogle
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dougal
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dougall
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dougl
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gugel
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hugel
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kugel
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macdougal
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mcdougal
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mcdougall
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mcdougle
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mcdugal
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mughal
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