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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
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
Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5] Each class is composed of multiple divisions and then sections. This may be conceptualized as a tree containing over a thousand branches for individual "meaning clusters" or semantically linked words.
(n.) synonym of election day ponce (n.) (slang) someone with overly affected airs and graces; an effeminate posturing man; a pimp. Originates from Maltese slang. (related US: poncey) (v.) (slang) to act like a pimp; to cadge, to borrow with little or no intention of returning, often openly so ("Can I ponce a ciggie off you, mate?") ponce about ...
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.
WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus.
What are the sexual harassment allegations Blake Lively has made against co-star Justin Baldoni? In a meeting on Jan. 4, the complaint says that Lively and her team discussed in detail behavior by ...
The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap