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cheeky
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adj 1: offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old
rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"
[syn: brash, cheeky, nervy]
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creaky
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adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a
decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction
tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood";
"a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit,
derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
2: having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs" [syn:
creaky, screaky]
3: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints";
"rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky,
rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy]
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dashiki
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n 1: a loose and brightly colored African shirt [syn: dashiki,
daishiki]
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freaky
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adj 1: strange and somewhat frightening; "the whole experience
was really freaky"
2: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like
a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish
combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the
outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage
antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky,
flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish,
outre]
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icky
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adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn:
icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty,
stinking, stinky]
2: soft and sticky [syn: gooey, icky]
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leaky
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adj 1: permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ; "a
leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system" [ant: tight]
2: used informally; unable to retain urine
3: prone to communicate confidential information [syn:
blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)]
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peaky
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adj 1: having or as if having especially high-pitched spots;
"absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass" [syn:
peaky, spiky]
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picky
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adj 1: exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater";
"fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her
food was prepared" [syn: finical, finicky, fussy,
particular, picky]
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quickie
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n 1: hurried repair [syn: band aid, quick fix, quickie,
quicky]
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sneaky
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adj 1: marked by deception; "achieved success in business only
by underhand methods" [syn: sneaky, underhand,
underhanded]
2: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to
avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack";
"stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"
[syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy,
surreptitious]
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squeaky
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adj 1: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made
by a mouse or a rusty hinge [syn: screaky, screechy,
squeaking, squeaky, squealing]
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sticky
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adj 1: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn:
gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty,
sticky, viscid, viscous]
2: moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking
to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time"
3: hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics";
"sticky weather" [syn: muggy, steamy, sticky]
4: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment;
"awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the
discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a
sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to
an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
[syn: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable]
5: covered with an adhesive material
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streaky
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adj 1: marked with or as if with stripes or linear
discolorations; "streaked hair"; "fat legs and dirty
streaky faces" [syn: streaked, streaky]
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tricky
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adj 1: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar
the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
2: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky
recipe to follow" [syn: catchy, tricky]
3: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily
old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy,
guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky,
wily]
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hickey
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n 1: a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or
papule; common symptom in acne [syn: pimple, hickey,
zit]
2: a temporary red mark on a person's skin resulting from
kissing or sucking by their lover [syn: hickey, love
bite]
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mickey
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n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Irish descent
[syn: Paddy, Mick, Mickey]
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leakey
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n 1: English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary
Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was
appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but
resigned under political pressure (born in 1944) [syn:
Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey]
2: English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who
discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years
old (1913-1996) [syn: Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas
Leakey]
3: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in
Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
[syn: Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett
Leakey]
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dickie
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n 1: a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-
seater [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat,
dickie-seat, dicky-seat]
2: a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the
front of a shirt [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky,
shirtfront]
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dicky
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adj 1: (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"-
John le Carre [syn: dicky, dickey]
n 1: a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two-
seater [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat,
dickie-seat, dicky-seat]
2: a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the
front of a shirt [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky,
shirtfront]
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rickey
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n 1: a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water
usually with liquor
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logomachy
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n 1: argument about words or the meaning of words
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doohickey
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n 1: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not
known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its
socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the
corner that you will want to use" [syn: doodad,
doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo,
gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob,
thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy,
whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget]
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brickie
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geeky
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kiki
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yeakey
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iniki
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micciche
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siddiqi
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toshiki
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koninklijke
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nicki
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nicky
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nikki
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ricky
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rikki
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tussocky
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sciamachy
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