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Bunk

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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Absurdity 76% connected

The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.

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Absurdness 76% connected

Absurdity.

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Amphigory 76% connected

A nonsense verse; a rigmarole, with apparent meaning, which on further attention proves to be meaningless.

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Balderdash 76% connected

A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.

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Bosh 76% connected

Figure; outline; show.

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Bull 76% connected

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Cant 76% connected

A corner; angle; niche.

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Crock 76% connected

The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from c…

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Drool 76% connected

To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

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Flummery 76% connected

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

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Gibber 76% connected

A balky horse.

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Gibberish 76% connected

Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words; jargon.

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Humbug 76% connected

An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

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Incoherence 76% connected

Alt. of Incoherency

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Incoherency 76% connected

The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence.

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Lower 76% connected

Compar. of Low, a.

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Mummery 76% connected

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.

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Palaver 76% connected

Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

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piffle 76% connected

Nonsense or trivial talk

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poppycock 76% connected

Nonsense or absurdity

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Rhetoric 76% connected

The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

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Rigmarole 76% connected

A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense.

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Tosh 76% connected

Neat; trim.

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Twaddle 76% connected

To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

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Upper 76% connected

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a…

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Bed 76% connected

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Chisel 76% connected

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Drivel 76% connected

To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard.

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Garbage 76% connected

Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.

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Leave 76% connected

To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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Manger 76% connected

A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Trough 76% connected

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray…

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Manner of action 3

Flee 76% connected

To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, makin…

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Fly 76% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Skedaddle 76% connected

To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.

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Beat 92% connected

of Beat

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Berth 92% connected

Convenient sea room.

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Buncombe 92% connected

Alt. of Bunkum

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Bunkum 92% connected

Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.

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Escape 92% connected

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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Hogwash 92% connected

Swill.

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Lam 92% connected

To beat soundly; to thrash.

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Nonsense 92% connected

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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Rot 92% connected

To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving of…

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Run 92% connected

of Run

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Scat 92% connected

Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

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