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nonsense
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...garbage, jive, tripe, drivel, bilge, bull, guff, bunk, bosh, BS, eyewash, piffle...AWKWARD SYNONYMS nonsense, bull, bunk, drivel, poppycock, twaddle If...logical thinking and outright poppycock). Bull is a slang term for deceitful and often...
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dog
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...terrier Bedlington terrier border terrier bull terrier cairn terrier Dandie Dinmont...Lakeland terrier Manchester terrier miniature bull terrier miniature schnauzer Norfolk terrier...coated wheaten terrier Staffordshire bull terrier Welsh terrier West Highland (white...
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yarn
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
yarn • noun 1. use a fine yarn synonyms : thread, fiber, strand. 2. tell a good yarn synonyms : story, tale, anecdote, fable; inf. tall tale/story, cock and bull story.
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target
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
target • noun 1. fail to hit the target in the shooting gallery synonyms : mark, bull's-eye. 2. the injured bird was an easy target synonyms : prey, quarry, game. 3. our target is $50...
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neuter
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
neuter • verb neuter a cat/bull synonyms : castrate, geld, emasculate; spay; inf. fix.
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male
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
...synonyms : man, gentleman, boy, lad; inf. fellow, guy. 2. the breeder segregated the males | the male has brighter plumage synonyms : tomcat, bull, ram, stallion, buck, stag, boar, billy goat, cock, gander, drake.
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hulk
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
hulk • noun 1. the hulk of a ship synonyms : wreck, shipwreck, ruin, shell, skeleton, hull, frame. 2. a clumsy hulk synonyms : oaf, lout; inf. bull in a china shop, lummox, klutz.
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emasculate
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English
emasculate • verb 1. emasculate a bull synonyms : castrate, neuter, geld, spay, desex, unman. 2. emasculate the power of the state synonyms : weaken, debilitate, make feeble/feebler, enfeeble, enervate, impoverish.
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untruth
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...falsification, half-truth, exaggeration; story, myth, piece of fiction; informal tall story, fairy tale, cock-and-bull story, whopper. 2. the total untruth of the story synonyms : falsity, falsehood, falseness, untruthfulness...
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seabird
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
...bird bawk black guillemot black skimmer black tern black-footed albatross Bonaparte's gull booby brown noddy brown pelican bull bird cahow Cassin's auklet common murre cormorant crow duck double-crested cormorant dovekie Franklin's gull frigate bird...
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