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committee
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n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a
committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" -
Milton Berle [syn: committee, commission]
2: a self-constituted organization to promote something [syn:
committee, citizens committee]
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dickey
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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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ditty
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n 1: a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be
sung)
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drippy
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adj 1: wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy
day" [syn: drippy, drizzly]
2: leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet"
3: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
[syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish,
kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental,
soppy, soupy, slushy]
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nippy
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adj 1: a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese"
2: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy,
snappy]
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piggy
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adj 1: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish
table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his
porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over
food" [syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine,
swinish]
n 1: a young pig [syn: piglet, piggy, shoat, shote]
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pretty
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adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty
big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are
priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"
[syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly,
somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant:
immoderately, unreasonably]
adj 1: pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty
girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
2: (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a
pretty kettle of fish"
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quickie
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n 1: hurried repair [syn: band aid, quick fix, quickie,
quicky]
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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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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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twiggy
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adj 1: thin as a twig [syn: twiggy, twiglike]
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witty
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adj 1: combining clever conception and facetious expression;
"his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as
well as eloquent"
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zippy
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adj 1: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a
lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling
rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn:
alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling,
snappy, spanking, zippy]
2: marked by lively action; "a bouncing gait"; "bouncy tunes";
"the peppy and interesting talk"; "a spirited dance" [syn:
bouncing, bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy]
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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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kiddy
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n 1: a young child
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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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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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dippy
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snippy
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yippee
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biggie
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chippy
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grippy
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hitchy
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nitty
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witchy
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yippie
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griggy
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figgie
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biggy
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