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to cadge ("can I bum a cigarette off you?") (slang) buttocks [24] [25] (colloquial) (US: butt) hobo, homeless person poor quality (slang) to sadden (often used with "out") injured or lame ("a bum knee") [26] bumps a type of rowing race a method of marking someone's birthday (see Birthday customs and celebrations) a set of small protuberances: bunk
cadge from cadger [2] caretake from caretaker; cavitate from cavitation [1] chain-smoke from chain-smoker [4] chalant from nonchalant; Chess (river) from Chesham; choate from inchoate; choreograph from choreography [5] chupacabra from Spanish chupacabras (both a plural and a singular in Spanish) claustrophobe from claustrophobia; cohese from ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Probably from a Scandinavian source or related to "cadge" [149] keg From a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse kaggi (="keg, cask") [150] keel kjölr [151] kenning a descriptive phrase used in Germanic poetry, a modern learned word from Old Norse kenning in a special sense. [152] kick
antonym: a word with the exact opposite meaning of another word; an antithesis: often shown in opposite word pairs such as "high" and "low" (compare with "synonym") apronym : a word which, as an acronym or backronym, has a meaning related to the meaning of the words constituting the acronym or backronym; such as PLATO for "Programmed Logic for ...