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cassette drives

n. (cassette drive English)

outdoorsy

a. 1 (context informal English) Associated with the outdoors, or suited to outdoor life. 2 (context informal English) Fond of the outdoors.

wardsmithite

n. (context mineralogy English) A hexagonal mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, and oxygen.

reperforates

vb. (en-third-person singular of: reperforate)

umb

prep. (alternative form of umbe English)

freeways

n. (plural of freeway English)

saleswoman

n. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.

fullerenes

n. (plural of fullerene English)

uprated
  1. 1 That has been given a higher rating 2 upgraded v

  2. (en-past of: uprate)

bando

n. 1 A Welsh team sport related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy. 2 The curve-ended stick used in this game.

puerperal fevers

n. (plural of puerperal fever English)

stipulating

vb. (present participle of stipulate English)

adorner

n. One who places adornments, who adorns.

phantasmagories

n. (plural of phantasmagory English)

detectors

n. (plural of detector English)

nanotoxicological

a. Relating to nanotoxicology.

dope fiends

n. (dope fiend English)

restringe

vb. (context obsolete English) To confine; to contract; to stringe.

moot-hall

n. (context obsolete English) A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.

trite

Etymology 1 a. Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase). Etymology 2

n. 1 A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater. 2 (taxlink Trite genus noshow=1), a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.

dendrograms

n. (plural of dendrogram English)

pinky swear

vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.

incestlike

a. resembling incest

titanotheriums

n. (plural of titanotherium English)

nasheeds

n. (plural of nasheed English)

peel out

vb. (context idiomatic US automotive English) To start abruptly from a standing stop, accelerating rapidly, especially so as to produce skid marks.

dishes out

vb. (en-third-person singulardish out)

jail locks

n. (jail lock English)

dished out

vb. (en-pastdish out)

denominators

n. (plural of denominator English)

completive

a. Making complete.

tortoise shell

n. 1 The shell of a tortoise, sometimes inaccurately the shell of a turtle, or that material. 2 (alternative form of tortoiseshell English)

joins

n. (plural of join English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: join)

digital subscriber line

n. A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.

sulphacids

n. (plural of sulphacid English)

rock up

vb. 1 (context rock climbing English) To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement. 2 To turn up to a place or function unexpectedly, or without notice or prior warning.

pouffy

a. (alternative spelling of poufy English)

Usage examples of "pouffy".

Gwen turned to face a middle-aged woman with pouffy blond hair, wearing a pastel blue cotton suit and a synthetic smile.

Jeremy Spencer Barr It sounded so bloody pouffy I thought here we go back to the old fairy days of Burgess and MacLean.