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boogie
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n 1: an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)
[syn: boogie, boogie-woogie]
v 1: dance to boogie music
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bookie
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n 1: a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on
horse races) [syn: bookmaker, bookie]
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cookie
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n 1: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
British term) [syn: cookie, cooky, biscuit]
2: the cook on a ranch or at a camp [syn: cookie, cooky]
3: a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's
hard drive when you access the web site
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dusky
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adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides
down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the
twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]
2: naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned
beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a
smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" [syn: dark-
skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy]
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frisky
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adj 1: playful like a lively kitten [syn: kittenish, frisky]
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goody
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n 1: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty,
delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat]
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hooky
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n 1: failure to attend (especially school) [syn: truancy,
hooky]
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husky
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adj 1: muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a
tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a
strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish
term" [syn: beefy, burly, husky, strapping,
buirdly]
2: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or
emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse
cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"-
Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse, husky]
n 1: breed of heavy-coated Arctic sled dog [syn: Eskimo dog,
husky]
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kooky
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adj 1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used
to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy,
bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked,
crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire,
kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky,
whacky]
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musky
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adj 1: resembling the smell of musk
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pesky
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adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying
rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is
particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it
galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating
delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito";
"swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety
catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him";
"a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you
are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling,
irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering,
pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing]
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risky
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adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous
sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog";
"a wild financial scheme" [syn: hazardous, risky,
wild]
2: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
[syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative]
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rookie
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n 1: an awkward and inexperienced youth [syn: cub,
greenhorn, rookie]
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whisky
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n 1: a liquor made from fermented mash of grain [syn: whiskey,
whisky]
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whoopee
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n 1: noisy and boisterous revelry
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woody
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adj 1: made of or containing or resembling wood; "woody plants";
"perennial herbs with woody stems"; "a woody taste" [ant:
nonwoody]
2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in
woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn:
arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody]
3: made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin
in the cell walls
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bosky
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adj 1: covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets; "brushy
undergrowth"; "`bosky' is a literary term"; "a bosky park
leading to a modest yet majestic plaza"- Jack Beatty
[syn: bosky, brushy]
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nookie
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n 1: slang for sexual intercourse [syn: fuck, fucking,
screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of
ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup]
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dostoevsky
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n 1: Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor
and psychological insight (1821-1881) [syn: Dostoyevsky,
Dostoevski, Dostoevsky, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Feodor Dostoevski, Fyodor Dostoevski,
Feodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Feodor
Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Fyodor
Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky,
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky]
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paderewski
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n 1: Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime
Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941) [syn:
Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski]
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ascii
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n 1: (computer science) a code for information exchange between
computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary
digits represents each character; used in most
microcomputers [syn: American Standard Code for
Information Interchange, ASCII]
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malinowski
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n 1: British anthropologist (born in Poland) who introduced the
technique of the participant observer (1884-1942) [syn:
Malinowski, Bronislaw Malinowski, Bronislaw Kasper
Malinowski]
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tchaikovsky
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n 1: important Russian composer whose works are noted for their
expressive melodies (1840-1893) [syn: Tchaikovsky, Peter
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky]
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sikorsky
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n 1: United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed
the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced
helicopter (1889-1972) [syn: Sikorsky, Igor Sikorsky,
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky]
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goodie
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hookey
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askey
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gorecki
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bukowski
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asci
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brzezinski
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laski
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pulaski
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russki
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polanski
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kolinsky
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blavatsky
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brodsky
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