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fable collapse: a short moral story (often with animal characters)

gander collapse: mature male goose

fabrication collapse: the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery); the act of making something (a product) from raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing is vital to Great Britain"; writing in a fictional form; a deliberately false or improbable account

exaggeration collapse: the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"; making to seem more important than it really is

gest collapse

flannel collapse: a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing; (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

bullshit collapse: obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"; talk through one's hat; "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"

horse opera collapse

Western collapse: a film about life in the western United States during the period of exploration and development; a sandwich made from a western omelet; lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"; relating to or characteristic of regions of western parts of the world; "Western Europe"; "the Western Roman Empire"; of or characteristic of regions of the United States west of the Mississippi River; "a Western ranch"

tomcat collapse

thriller collapse: a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie

double entendre collapse: an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

story collapse: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"

tom collapse: male cat; contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

buncombe collapse

mispronunciation collapse: incorrect pronunciation

old saw collapse

hot air collapse: air that has been heated and tends to rise

allegory collapse: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

poultry collapse: flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

old story collapse

bunkum collapse

ram collapse: uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'"; a tool for driving or forcing something by impact; strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door"

bunk collapse: a rough bed (as at a campsite); a long trough for feeding cattle; unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements); provide with a bunk; "We bunked the children upstairs"

twice told tale collapse

banality collapse

life story collapse

confessions collapse

brooder collapse

autobiography collapse: a biography of yourself

cock collapse: adult male bird; adult male chicken; obscene terms for penis; set the trigger of a firearm back for firing; tilt or slant to one side; "cock one's head"

goose collapse: web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks; flesh of a goose (domestic or wild); give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car"; prod into action; pinch in the buttocks; "he goosed the unsuspecting girl"

biography collapse: an account of the series of events making up a person's life

pullet collapse: young hen usually less than a year old

bromide collapse: any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs

romance collapse: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life; the group of languages derived from Latin; relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"; tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"; have a love affair with

wow collapse: impress greatly; "The speaker wowed the audience"

panic collapse: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety; sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"; cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic; "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"; be overcome by a sudden fear; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"

turkey collapse: large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food; an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"; flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted; a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923

lang syne collapse

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