Words that rhyme with obol

n 1: a mock scepter carried by a court jester 2: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]

n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

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]

n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

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"

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]

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"

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]

adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops"

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

v 1: look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape, gawp, gawk]

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]

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] 2: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift] 3: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" [syn: kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch] 4: disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"

n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]

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]

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]

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]

n 1: common business-oriented language

n 1: a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)

n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)

n 1: a small knob