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Hoe

A tool chiefly for digging up weeds, and arranging the earth about plants in fields and gardens. It is made of a flat blade of iron or steel having an eye or tang by which it is attached to a wooden handle at an acute angle.

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Bawd 76% connected

A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a wom…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cyprian 76% connected

Belonging to Cyprus.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Harlot 76% connected

A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Prostitute 76% connected

To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tart 76% connected

Sharp to the taste; acid; sour; as, a tart apple.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Till 76% connected

A vetch; a tare.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tool 76% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Whore 76% connected

A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Scuffle 76% connected

To strive or struggle with a close grapple; to wrestle in a rough fashion.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Delve 72% connected

To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Dig 72% connected

To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 4

Ho 92% connected

Who.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hussy 92% connected

A housewife or housekeeper.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Slut 92% connected

An untidy woman; a slattern.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trollop 92% connected

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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