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hocus-pocus
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related words >
abracadabra
,
artifice
,
cheat
,
chicanery
,
con game
,
conjuring
,
deceit
,
deception
,
duplicity
,
flimflam
,
gibberish
,
hanky-panky
,
hoax
,
humbug
,
incantation
,
jiggery-pokery
,
jugglery
,
legerdemain
,
magic
,
mischief
,
mumbo-jumbo
,
nonsense
,
prestidigitation
,
rigmarole
,
sleight of hand
,
swindle
,
trick
,
trickery
trash
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worthless people
dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer"
related words >
absurdity
,
amphigory
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
balls
,
baloney
,
bibble-babble
,
bilge
,
blabber
,
blather
,
bombast
,
bosh
,
bric-a-brac
,
brummagem
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
canaille
,
castaway
,
castoff
,
cattle
,
chaff
,
chicken feed
,
chickenshit
,
clamjamfry
,
claptrap
,
crap
,
debris
,
deface
,
derelict
,
destroy
,
details
,
dirt
,
discard
,
dogie
,
double-talk
,
dregs
,
dregs of society
,
drivel
,
drool
,
dross
,
dust
,
eyewash
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flapdoodle
,
flotsam
,
flotsam and jetsam
,
flummery
,
folderol
,
foundling
,
fripperies
,
frippery
,
froth
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
garbage
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gimcrackery
,
gobbledygook
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hokum
,
hooey
,
humbug
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jetsam
,
junk
,
kelter
,
knickknackery
,
lagan
,
leavings
,
litter
,
lumber
,
malarkey
,
masses
,
minutiae
,
mob
,
moonshine
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
odds and ends
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
offscum
,
orphan
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
peanuts
,
piffle
,
poppycock
,
prate
,
prattle
,
proletariat
,
raff
,
ragtag and bobtail
,
rant
,
refuse
,
reject
,
riffraff
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
rubble
,
ruin
,
scoria
,
scrap
,
scum
,
shoddy
,
skimble-skamble
,
slag
,
slog
,
slop
,
small beer
,
small change
,
sordes
,
stodge
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
sweepings
,
swinish multitude
,
tinsel
,
toil
,
trifles
,
trinkets
,
trivia
,
truck
,
trudge
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
unwashed
,
vandalize
,
vaporing
,
vermin
,
waffling
,
waif
,
waifs and strays
,
waste
,
wastrel
,
wreck
flannel
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a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing
(usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
related words >
ballocks
,
blarney
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bushwa
,
cock
,
crap
,
eyewash
,
flatter
,
flattery
,
hedge
,
hogwash
,
humbug
,
mislead
,
nonsense
,
prevarication
,
rubbish
,
shit
,
soft soap
,
soft-soap
,
sweet talk
,
sweet-talk
,
waffle
,
weasel words
gammon
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hind portion of a side of bacon
related words >
absurdity
,
act
,
act a part
,
affect
,
amphigory
,
assume
,
babble
,
babblement
,
bacon
,
balderdash
,
balls
,
baloney
,
bamboozle
,
beguile
,
betray
,
bibble-babble
,
blabber
,
blague
,
blather
,
bluff
,
bombast
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
butt
,
cajole
,
cheat on
,
chitterlings
,
circumvent
,
claptrap
,
cochon de lait
,
conjure
,
counterfeit
,
cover up
,
cracklings
,
crap
,
deceive
,
delude
,
diddle
,
dissemble
,
dissimulate
,
double-cross
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
drool
,
dupe
,
eyewash
,
fake
,
fat back
,
feign
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
flitch
,
flummery
,
folderol
,
forestall
,
four-flush
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
get around
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gobbledygook
,
gull
,
ham
,
ham steak
,
haslet
,
headcheese
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
hooey
,
hornswaggle
,
humbug
,
humbuggery
,
jabber
,
jambon
,
jambonneau
,
jargon
,
jiggery-pokery
,
juggle
,
lard
,
let down
,
let on
,
let on like
,
make a pretense
,
make as if
,
make believe
,
make like
,
mock
,
moonshine
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
outmaneuver
,
outreach
,
outsmart
,
outwit
,
overreach
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
picnic ham
,
pieds de cochon
,
pig
,
pigeon
,
play
,
play a part
,
play one false
,
play possum
,
playact
,
pork
,
porkpie
,
prate
,
prattle
,
pretend
,
profess
,
put on
,
put something over
,
rant
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rubbish
,
salt pork
,
sham
,
side of bacon
,
simulate
,
skimble-skamble
,
small ham
,
snow
,
sowbelly
,
string along
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
suckling pig
,
take in
,
trash
,
trick
,
trotters
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
two-time
,
vaporing
,
waffling
preamble
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a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose)
make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document
related words >
avant-propos
,
breakthrough
,
exordium
,
foreword
,
front matter
,
frontispiece
,
innovation
,
introduce
,
introduction
,
leap
,
overture
,
postulate
,
preface
,
prefix
,
prefixture
,
preliminary
,
prelude
,
premise
,
presupposition
,
proem
,
prolegomena
,
prolegomenon
,
prolepsis
,
prologize
,
prologue
,
protasis
,
verse
,
voluntary
absurdity
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a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
a message whose content is at variance with reason
related words >
absurdness
,
act of folly
,
aimlessness
,
amphigory
,
anticness
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
bibble-babble
,
bizarreness
,
bizarrerie
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blunder
,
bombast
,
bootlessness
,
claptrap
,
craziness
,
curiousness
,
daftness
,
deformity
,
dottiness
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
drollery
,
drollness
,
drool
,
dumb trick
,
eccentricity
,
emptiness
,
error
,
fallacy
,
fantasticality
,
fantasticalness
,
fatuity
,
fecklessness
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flummery
,
folderol
,
folly
,
foolishness
,
freakishness
,
fruitlessness
,
fudge
,
funniness
,
fustian
,
futility
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gobbledygook
,
grotesqueness
,
grotesquerie
,
hilarity
,
hocus-pocus
,
hollowness
,
hopelessness
,
humbug
,
humorousness
,
illogicality
,
impossibility
,
impossible
,
impossibleness
,
impotence
,
imprudence
,
inanity
,
inconceivability
,
incongruity
,
indiscretion
,
ineffectiveness
,
ineffectuality
,
inefficacy
,
insanity
,
irrationality
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
laughability
,
ludicrousness
,
malformation
,
meaninglessness
,
monstrosity
,
monstrousness
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
no chance
,
nonsense
,
nonsensicality
,
nugacity
,
nuttiness
,
oddity
,
otiosity
,
outlandishness
,
outrageousness
,
oxymoron
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
paradox
,
peculiarity
,
pointlessness
,
prate
,
prattle
,
preposterousness
,
pricelessness
,
profitlessness
,
purposelessness
,
quaintness
,
queerness
,
quizzicalness
,
rant
,
rat race
,
richness
,
ridiculousness
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rubbish
,
self-contradiction
,
senselessness
,
silliness
,
singularity
,
skimble-skamble
,
sottise
,
strangeness
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
stupid thing
,
stupidity
,
teratism
,
the absurd
,
the funny side
,
the impossible
,
trash
,
triviality
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
unimaginability
,
unproductiveness
,
unprofitability
,
unprofitableness
,
unreasonableness
,
unthinkability
,
unwise step
,
valuelessness
,
vanity
,
vaporing
,
vicious circle
,
waffling
,
weirdness
,
what cannot be
,
what cannot happen
,
whimsicalness
,
wildness
,
witlessness
,
wittiness
,
worthlessness
mumbo-jumbo
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related words >
abracadabra
,
bilge
,
blather
,
blether
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunkum
,
chant
,
charm
,
claptrap
,
conjuration
,
crap
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
eyewash
,
formula
,
gibberish
,
gobbledygook
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hooey
,
humbug
,
incantation
,
jabberwocky
,
magic
,
malarkey
,
moonshine
,
nonsense
,
piffle
,
poppycock
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rite
,
ritual
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
spell
chat
collapse
an informal conversation
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
be closeted with
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
bull session
,
bullshit
,
burble
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
causerie
,
chatter
,
chew the fat
,
chin
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
colloque
,
colloquy
,
compare
,
confab
,
confabulate
,
confabulation
,
conversation
,
converse
,
coze
,
cozy chat
,
dialogue
,
dish
,
dither
,
entice
,
flirt with
,
friendly chat
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gam
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gossip
,
guff
,
gush
,
haver
,
heart-to-heart
,
heart-to-heart talk
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
induce
,
inveigle
,
jabber
,
jaw
,
lallygag
,
little talk
,
lure
,
make conversation
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
parley
,
patter
,
persuade
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prevail upon
,
prittle-prattle
,
proposition
,
prose
,
ramble on
,
rap
,
rap session
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
run on
,
seduce
,
shoot the breeze
,
small talk
,
smatter
,
spout
,
spout off
,
talk
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
tempt
,
tete-a-tete
,
tinkle
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle
,
twitter
,
visit
,
waffle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
,
yammer
,
yap
,
yarn
mumbo jumbo
collapse
language that is unnecessarily difficult to understand
related words >
Mumbo Jumbo
,
abracadabra
,
absurdity
,
amorphousness
,
amphigory
,
amulet
,
anagoge
,
anagogics
,
anthroposophy
,
argot
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
bibble-babble
,
blabber
,
blather
,
bogey
,
bogeyman
,
boggart
,
bogle
,
bombast
,
booger
,
boogerman
,
boogeyman
,
bug
,
bugaboo
,
bugbear
,
bugger
,
cabala
,
cabalism
,
cant
,
charm
,
claptrap
,
conjuration
,
dark
,
darkness
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
drool
,
escamotage
,
esotericism
,
esoterics
,
esoterism
,
esotery
,
fee-faw-fum
,
fetish
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flummery
,
fog
,
fogginess
,
folderol
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
fuzziness
,
fylfot
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammadion
,
gammon
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gobbledygook
,
good-luck charm
,
hanky-panky
,
hocus-pocus
,
hokey-pokey
,
hoodoo
,
humbug
,
incantation
,
indeterminateness
,
indistinctness
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jiggery-pokery
,
jugglery
,
juggling
,
juju
,
legerdemain
,
lingo
,
love charm
,
lucky bean
,
lucky piece
,
madstone
,
magic formula
,
magic words
,
mascot
,
mist
,
mistiness
,
monkey business
,
mummery
,
murk
,
murkiness
,
mystery
,
mysticism
,
mystification
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
obeah
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
obscuration
,
obscurity
,
occultism
,
opacity
,
open sesame
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
patois
,
patter
,
periapt
,
perplexity
,
philter
,
phraseology
,
phylactery
,
prate
,
prattle
,
prestidigitation
,
rant
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
rubbish
,
scarab
,
scarabaeus
,
scarabee
,
scatology
,
shapelessness
,
skimble-skamble
,
slang
,
sleight of hand
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
sudarium
,
swastika
,
symbolics
,
symbolism
,
taboo language
,
talisman
,
trash
,
trickery
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
unclarity
,
unclearness
,
unplainness
,
vagueness
,
vaporing
,
vernacular
,
veronica
,
vocabulary
,
voodoo
,
vulgar language
,
waffling
,
whammy
,
yoga
,
yogeeism
,
yogism
yak
collapse
large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated
noisy talk
related words >
Brahman
,
Indian buffalo
,
aurochs
,
babble
,
babblement
,
bat the breeze
,
bavardage
,
beat the gums
,
beef
,
beef cattle
,
beeves
,
bibble-babble
,
bison
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
bossy
,
bovine
,
bovine animal
,
buffalo
,
bull
,
bullock
,
cackle
,
calf
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
carabao
,
cattle
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chin
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
cow
,
crack
,
critter
,
dairy cattle
,
dairy cow
,
dither
,
dogie
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gag
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gossip
,
guff
,
gush
,
haver
,
heifer
,
hornless cow
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
jape
,
jaw
,
jest
,
kine
,
leppy
,
maverick
,
mere talk
,
milch cow
,
milcher
,
milk cow
,
milker
,
muley cow
,
muley head
,
musk-ox
,
natter
,
neat
,
nonsense talk
,
ox
,
oxen
,
palaver
,
patter
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
quip
,
ramble on
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
run on
,
shoot the breeze
,
spiel
,
spout
,
spout off
,
steer
,
stirk
,
stot
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
waffle
,
waggery
,
wisecrack
,
wisent
,
witticism
,
yakkety-yak
,
yap
,
yearling
,
zebu
genuinely
collapse
related words >
absolutely
,
actually
,
all joking aside
,
artlessly
,
authentically
,
bluffly
,
bluntly
,
broadly
,
brusquely
,
candidly
,
de facto
,
directly
,
frankly
,
guilelessly
,
honestly
,
in actuality
,
in all conscience
,
in all seriousness
,
in effect
,
in fact
,
in plain English
,
in plain words
,
in reality
,
ingenuously
,
legitimately
,
manifestly
,
naturally
,
obviously
,
openheartedly
,
openly
,
outspokenly
,
plain-spokenly
,
plainly
,
positively
,
really
,
roundly
,
simply
,
sincerely
,
straightforwardly
,
truly
,
unaffectedly
,
unassumedly
,
unconstrainedly
,
unreservedly
,
unrestrainedly
,
veridically
,
veritably
,
warts and all
,
with no nonsense
rubbish
collapse
worthless material that is to be disposed of
attack strongly
related words >
absurdity
,
afterglow
,
afterimage
,
amphigory
,
attack
,
babble
,
babblement
,
bad-mouth
,
balance
,
balderdash
,
baloney
,
bibble-babble
,
bilge
,
blabber
,
blather
,
bombast
,
bosh
,
bric-a-brac
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
butt
,
butt end
,
candle ends
,
castaway
,
castoff
,
cattle
,
chaff
,
chicken feed
,
chickenshit
,
clamjamfry
,
claptrap
,
clobber
,
crap
,
criticize
,
debris
,
derelict
,
destroy
,
details
,
detritus
,
discard
,
dogie
,
double-talk
,
dregs
,
dregs of society
,
drivel
,
drool
,
dross
,
dust
,
end
,
eyewash
,
fag end
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
filings
,
flapdoodle
,
flotsam
,
flotsam and jetsam
,
flummery
,
folderol
,
fossil
,
foundling
,
fragments
,
froth
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
garbage
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gimcrackery
,
gobbledygook
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hokum
,
holdover
,
hooey
,
humbug
,
husks
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jetsam
,
jump all over
,
jump on
,
junk
,
kelter
,
knickknackery
,
lagan
,
leavings
,
lees
,
leftovers
,
litter
,
lumber
,
malarkey
,
minutiae
,
moonshine
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
odds and ends
,
offal
,
offscourings
,
offscum
,
orphan
,
orts
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
pan
,
pap
,
parings
,
peanuts
,
piffle
,
poppycock
,
prate
,
prattle
,
raff
,
rags
,
rant
,
refuse
,
reject
,
rejects
,
relics
,
remainder
,
remains
,
remnant
,
residue
,
residuum
,
rest
,
riffraff
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
roach
,
rodomontade
,
rot
,
rubble
,
ruins
,
rump
,
sawdust
,
scourings
,
scrap
,
scraps
,
scum
,
shadow
,
shavings
,
shoddy
,
skimble-skamble
,
slop
,
small beer
,
small change
,
sordes
,
straw
,
stubble
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
stump
,
survival
,
sweepings
,
swinish multitude
,
tommyrot
,
trace
,
trash
,
trifles
,
trivia
,
truck
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
vaporing
,
vermin
,
vestige
,
waffling
,
waif
,
waifs and strays
,
waste
,
wastrel
clatter
collapse
a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement); "the shutters clattered against the house"; "the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones"
make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes"
related words >
Bedlam let loose
,
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
bedlam
,
bibble-babble
,
bicker
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blast
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
bobbery
,
brattle
,
brawl
,
brouhaha
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
charivari
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chirm
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clacket
,
clamor
,
clangor
,
clap
,
clatter about
,
clitter
,
clitterclatter
,
clunter
,
commotion
,
din
,
discord
,
dither
,
donnybrook
,
drunken brawl
,
dustup
,
flap
,
fracas
,
free-for-all
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gossip
,
guff
,
gush
,
hassle
,
haver
,
hell broke loose
,
hot air
,
howl
,
hubbub
,
hue and cry
,
hullabaloo
,
hurly-burly
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
jangle
,
jaw
,
loud noise
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
noise
,
noise and shouting
,
nonsense talk
,
outcry
,
palaver
,
pandemonium
,
patter
,
pother
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
racket
,
ramble on
,
rattle
,
rattle around
,
rattle on
,
rattletybang
,
rattling
,
reel off
,
retail gossip
,
rhubarb
,
roar
,
row
,
ruckle
,
ruckus
,
ruction
,
rumble
,
rumpus
,
run on
,
shatter
,
shindy
,
shivaree
,
spout
,
spout off
,
talk
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
tattle
,
tell idle tales
,
thunder
,
thunderclap
,
tintamarre
,
tittle-tattle
,
to-do
,
tumult
,
turmoil
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
uproar
,
waffle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
humbug
collapse
communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
trick or deceive
related words >
absurdity
,
acting
,
affectation
,
amphigory
,
appearance
,
attitudinizing
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
balls
,
baloney
,
bamboozle
,
beguile
,
betray
,
bibble-babble
,
blabber
,
blague
,
blagueur
,
blather
,
blatherskite
,
bluff
,
bluffer
,
bluffing
,
bombast
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
cajole
,
charlatan
,
charlatanism
,
charlatanry
,
cheat on
,
cheating
,
circumvent
,
claptrap
,
color
,
coloring
,
conjure
,
crap
,
deceive
,
deception
,
delude
,
delusion
,
diddle
,
disguise
,
dissemblance
,
dissembling
,
dissimulation
,
double-cross
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
drool
,
dupe
,
eyewash
,
facade
,
face
,
fake
,
fakement
,
faker
,
fakery
,
faking
,
false air
,
false front
,
false show
,
falsity
,
feigning
,
feint
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flam
,
flapdoodle
,
flimflam
,
flummery
,
folderol
,
forestall
,
four-flushing
,
fourflusher
,
fraud
,
front
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
get around
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
gilt
,
gloss
,
gobbledygook
,
gull
,
gyp
,
hoax
,
hocus-pocus
,
hogwash
,
hoke
,
hokum
,
hooey
,
hornswaggle
,
humbuggery
,
impersonator
,
impostor
,
imposture
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jiggery-pokery
,
juggle
,
let down
,
malarkey
,
malingerer
,
masquerade
,
meretriciousness
,
mislead
,
mock
,
moonshine
,
mountebank
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
ostentation
,
outmaneuver
,
outreach
,
outsmart
,
outward show
,
outwit
,
overreach
,
pack of nonsense
,
palaver
,
phony
,
piffle
,
pigeon
,
play one false
,
playacting
,
pose
,
poser
,
poseur
,
posing
,
posture
,
prate
,
prattle
,
pretender
,
pretense
,
pretension
,
pretext
,
put something over
,
quack
,
quackery
,
quackishness
,
quackism
,
quacksalver
,
quackster
,
rant
,
representation
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
ringer
,
rip-off
,
rodomontade
,
rot
,
rubbish
,
saltimbanco
,
seeming
,
sell
,
semblance
,
sham
,
shammer
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
simulation
,
skimble-skamble
,
snow
,
speciousness
,
spoof
,
string along
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
take in
,
trash
,
trick
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
two-time
,
vaporing
,
varnish
,
waffling
,
window dressing
quatrain
collapse
a stanza of four lines
related words >
Spenserian stanza
,
antistrophe
,
book
,
burden
,
canto
,
chorus
,
couplet
,
distich
,
envoi
,
epode
,
heptastich
,
hexastich
,
line
,
measure
,
monostich
,
octastich
,
octave
,
octet
,
ottava rima
,
pentastich
,
refrain
,
rhyme royal
,
septet
,
sestet
,
sextet
,
stanza
,
stave
,
strain
,
strophe
,
syllable
,
tercet
,
terza rima
,
tetrastich
,
triplet
,
tristich
,
verse
strophe
collapse
one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama
related words >
Spenserian stanza
,
antistrophe
,
book
,
burden
,
canto
,
chorus
,
couplet
,
distich
,
envoi
,
epode
,
heptastich
,
hexastich
,
line
,
measure
,
monostich
,
octastich
,
octave
,
octet
,
ottava rima
,
pentastich
,
quatrain
,
refrain
,
rhyme royal
,
septet
,
sestet
,
sextet
,
stanza
,
stave
,
strain
,
syllable
,
tercet
,
terza rima
,
tetrastich
,
triplet
,
tristich
,
verse
piffle
collapse
act in a trivial or ineffective way
related words >
babble
,
balderdash
,
baloney
,
bilge
,
blabber
,
blah
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blatherskite
,
bop
,
bosh
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
bunk
,
bunkum
,
crap
,
drivel
,
drool
,
flapdoodle
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
guff
,
gup
,
hogwash
,
hokum
,
hooey
,
hot air
,
jabber
,
malarkey
,
moonshine
,
poppycock
,
prate
,
prattle
,
rattle
,
rot
,
scat
,
shit
,
talk nonsense
,
tommyrot
,
tripe
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
vapor
,
waffle
,
wind
poetry
collapse
literature in metrical form
any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
related words >
Apollo
,
Apollo Musagetes
,
Bragi
,
Calliope
,
Castilian Spring
,
Erato
,
Euterpe
,
Helicon
,
Hippocrene
,
Muse
,
Parnassus
,
Pierian Spring
,
Pierides
,
Polyhymnia
,
afflatus
,
creative imagination
,
ease
,
elegance
,
facility
,
fire of genius
,
flow
,
fluency
,
grace
,
gracefulness
,
inspiration
,
metrics
,
poesy
,
poetic genius
,
rhyme
,
rune
,
smoothness
,
song
,
the Muses
,
verse
,
versification
palaver
collapse
loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds
related words >
absurdity
,
accents
,
adulate
,
adulation
,
advise with
,
affair
,
amphigory
,
audience
,
babble
,
babblement
,
balderdash
,
bargain
,
bargaining
,
bargaining session
,
bavardage
,
beslobber
,
beslubber
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blandish
,
blandishment
,
blarney
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
bombast
,
bother
,
bull session
,
bunkum
,
business
,
cackle
,
cajole
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
call in
,
cant
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chinfest
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
claptrap
,
clatter
,
collogue
,
colloquium
,
colloquy
,
comment
,
compare notes
,
compliment
,
conceit
,
concern
,
conclave
,
confab
,
confabulate
,
confabulation
,
confer
,
confer with
,
conference
,
confrontation
,
congress
,
consult
,
consult with
,
consultation
,
convention
,
conversation
,
converse
,
council
,
council fire
,
council of war
,
counsel
,
deliberate
,
dialogue
,
dictionary
,
discourse
,
discuss
,
discuss with
,
discussion
,
dither
,
double-talk
,
drivel
,
drool
,
duologue
,
elocution
,
exchange observations
,
exchange of views
,
exchange views
,
eyeball-to-eyeball encounter
,
eyewash
,
fair words
,
fawn upon
,
fawning
,
fiddle-faddle
,
fiddledeedee
,
flatter
,
flattery
,
flummery
,
folderol
,
fudge
,
fustian
,
gab
,
gabble
,
galimatias
,
gammon
,
gas
,
get together
,
get-together
,
gibber
,
gibberish
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gobbledygook
,
gossip
,
grease
,
guff
,
gush
,
have conversations
,
haver
,
high-level talk
,
hocus-pocus
,
hold conference
,
honeyed phrases
,
honeyed words
,
hot air
,
huddle
,
humbug
,
idle talk
,
incense
,
interchange of views
,
interview
,
jabber
,
jargon
,
jaw
,
jawing
,
language
,
lexicon
,
lookout
,
make fair weather
,
meet
,
meeting
,
mere talk
,
mumbo jumbo
,
narrishkeit
,
natter
,
negotiate
,
negotiations
,
news conference
,
niaiserie
,
nonsense
,
nonsense talk
,
nuisance
,
occasions
,
oil
,
oil the tongue
,
oral communication
,
pack of nonsense
,
palavering
,
parley
,
parole
,
patter
,
performance
,
pour forth
,
pourparler
,
powwow
,
praise
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prattling
,
press conference
,
pretty lies
,
prittle-prattle
,
procedure
,
put heads together
,
question-and-answer session
,
ramble on
,
rant
,
rap session
,
rapping
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reason with
,
red tape
,
reel off
,
refer to
,
rigamarole
,
rigmarole
,
rodomontade
,
round table
,
rubbish
,
run on
,
seance
,
seminar
,
session
,
shoot the breeze
,
sit down together
,
sit down with
,
sitting
,
skimble-skamble
,
slobber over
,
small talk
,
soap
,
soft soap
,
song and dance
,
speaking
,
speech
,
spout
,
spout off
,
stuff and nonsense
,
stultiloquence
,
summit
,
summit conference
,
summitry
,
sweet nothings
,
sweet talk
,
sweet words
,
sycophancy
,
take counsel
,
take up with
,
talk
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talk over
,
talkee-talkee
,
talkfest
,
talking
,
tittle-tattle
,
to-do
,
trash
,
trialogue
,
trumpery
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
twiddle-twaddle
,
vaporing
,
vocabulary
,
waffle
,
waffling
,
wheedle
,
wheedling
,
words
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
,
yakking
talk nonsense
collapse
related words >
babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blather
,
blether
,
bull
,
bullshit
,
chat
,
chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
dither
,
drivel
,
drool
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gossip
,
gush
,
haver
,
jabber
,
jaw
,
natter
,
palaver
,
patter
,
piffle
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prattle
,
ramble on
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
run on
,
spout
,
spout off
,
talk away
,
talk on
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
vapor
,
waffle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
apprise
collapse
related words >
acquaint
,
advertise
,
advertise of
,
advise
,
announce
,
brief
,
bring word
,
clue
,
communicate
,
declare
,
disclose
,
discover
,
divulge
,
enlighten
,
familiarize
,
fill in
,
give notice
,
give the facts
,
give word
,
inform
,
instruct
,
leave word
,
let know
,
mention to
,
notify
,
post
,
proclaim
,
publish
,
report
,
reveal
,
send word
,
serve notice
,
speak
,
tell
,
verse
,
warn
sutra
collapse
a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared for memorization
related words >
adage
,
ana
,
analects
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
axiom
,
byword
,
catchword
,
collected sayings
,
current saying
,
dictate
,
dictum
,
distich
,
epigram
,
expression
,
gnome
,
golden saying
,
maxim
,
moral
,
mot
,
motto
,
oracle
,
phrase
,
pithy saying
,
precept
,
prescript
,
proverb
,
proverbial saying
,
proverbs
,
saw
,
saying
,
sentence
,
sententious expression
,
sloka
,
stock saying
,
teaching
,
text
,
verse
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
witticism
,
word
,
words of wisdom
words of wisdom
collapse
related words >
adage
,
ana
,
analects
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
axiom
,
byword
,
catchword
,
collected sayings
,
current saying
,
dictate
,
dictum
,
distich
,
epigram
,
expression
,
gnome
,
golden saying
,
maxim
,
moral
,
mot
,
motto
,
oracle
,
phrase
,
pithy saying
,
precept
,
prescript
,
proverb
,
proverbial saying
,
proverbs
,
saw
,
saying
,
sentence
,
sententious expression
,
sloka
,
stock saying
,
sutra
,
teaching
,
text
,
verse
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
witticism
,
word
adage
collapse
related words >
ana
,
analects
,
aphorism
,
apothegm
,
axiom
,
byword
,
catchword
,
collected sayings
,
current saying
,
dictate
,
dictum
,
distich
,
epigram
,
expression
,
gnome
,
golden saying
,
maxim
,
moral
,
mot
,
motto
,
oracle
,
phrase
,
pithy saying
,
precept
,
prescript
,
proverb
,
proverbial saying
,
proverbs
,
saw
,
saying
,
sentence
,
sententious expression
,
sloka
,
stock saying
,
sutra
,
teaching
,
text
,
verse
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
witticism
,
word
,
words of wisdom
dig in
collapse
related words >
arm
,
armor
,
armor-plate
,
bank
,
barricade
,
battle
,
blockade
,
bulwark
,
castellate
,
crenellate
,
embattle
,
entrench
,
fence
,
fortify
,
garrison
,
hang in
,
hang in there
,
hang tough
,
hold fast
,
hold out
,
man
,
man the garrison
,
mine
,
palisade
,
remain firm
,
stand fast
,
stand firm
,
stand no nonsense
,
stand the gaff
,
stick
,
stick fast
,
take what comes
,
wall
nonsense talk
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gossip
,
guff
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
palaver
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
talkee-talkee
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
assonance
collapse
the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
related words >
alliteration
,
blank verse
,
chime
,
clink
,
consonance
,
crambo
,
dingdong
,
double rhyme
,
drone
,
eye rhyme
,
harping
,
humdrum
,
jingle
,
jingle-jangle
,
monotone
,
monotony
,
near rhyme
,
paronomasia
,
pitter-patter
,
pun
,
repeated sounds
,
repetitiousness
,
repetitiveness
,
rhyme
,
rhyme royal
,
rhyme scheme
,
rhyming dictionary
,
single rhyme
,
singsong
,
slant rhyme
,
stale repetition
,
tail rhyme
,
tedium
,
trot
,
unnecessary repetition
,
unrhymed poetry
alliteration
collapse
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
related words >
assonance
,
blank verse
,
chime
,
clink
,
consonance
,
crambo
,
dingdong
,
double rhyme
,
drone
,
eye rhyme
,
harping
,
humdrum
,
jingle
,
jingle-jangle
,
monotone
,
monotony
,
near rhyme
,
paronomasia
,
pitter-patter
,
pun
,
repeated sounds
,
repetitiousness
,
repetitiveness
,
rhyme
,
rhyme royal
,
rhyme scheme
,
rhyming dictionary
,
single rhyme
,
singsong
,
slant rhyme
,
stale repetition
,
tail rhyme
,
tedium
,
trot
,
unnecessary repetition
,
unrhymed poetry
acquaint
collapse
inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move"
related words >
accustom
,
advertise
,
advertise of
,
advise
,
apprise
,
brief
,
bring word
,
clue
,
communicate
,
disclose
,
divulge
,
do the honors
,
enlighten
,
familiarize
,
fill in
,
give a knockdown
,
give an introduction
,
give notice
,
give the facts
,
give word
,
habituate
,
inform
,
instruct
,
introduce
,
leave word
,
let know
,
make acquainted
,
mention to
,
notify
,
post
,
present
,
quaint
,
report
,
reveal
,
send word
,
serve notice
,
speak
,
tell
,
verse
,
warn
clack
collapse
a sharp abrupt noise as if two objects hit together; may be repeated
related words >
Klaxon
,
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
bibble-babble
,
bicker
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
boiler factory
,
boiler room
,
brattle
,
bull-roarer
,
cackle
,
call
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
carol
,
catcall
,
caw
,
chat
,
chatter
,
cheep
,
cherry bomb
,
chirk
,
chirp
,
chirr
,
chirrup
,
chitter
,
chitter-chatter
,
chuck
,
clacker
,
clacket
,
clapper
,
clatter
,
clatter about
,
click
,
clitter
,
clitterclatter
,
cluck
,
clunter
,
cock-a-doodle-doo
,
coo
,
crack
,
cracker
,
cracking
,
crackle
,
crackling
,
crepitate
,
crepitation
,
cricket
,
croak
,
cronk
,
crow
,
cuckoo
,
decrepitate
,
decrepitation
,
dither
,
drum
,
firecracker
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gaggle
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
go on
,
gobble
,
gossip
,
guff
,
guggle
,
gush
,
haver
,
honk
,
hoo
,
hoot
,
horn
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
jaw
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
noisemaker
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
patter
,
peep
,
pip
,
pipe
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prittle-prattle
,
quack
,
quidnunc
,
racket
,
ramble on
,
rattle
,
rattle around
,
rattle on
,
rattlebox
,
rattletybang
,
rattling
,
reel off
,
roll
,
ruckle
,
rumormonger
,
run on
,
scandalmonger
,
scold
,
shatter
,
sieve
,
sing
,
siren
,
sizzling
,
snap
,
snapper
,
snapping
,
spit
,
spitting
,
spout
,
spout off
,
squawk
,
steam whistle
,
tabby
,
talebearer
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
telltale
,
ticktack
,
tittle-tattle
,
trill
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
tweet
,
twit
,
twitter
,
waffle
,
warble
,
whistle
,
whizgig
,
whizzer
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
blab
collapse
related words >
agreeable rattle
,
babble
,
babblement
,
babbler
,
bavardage
,
be indiscreet
,
be unguarded
,
bear witness against
,
betray
,
betray a confidence
,
betrayer
,
bibble-babble
,
big talker
,
blabber
,
blabberer
,
blabbermouth
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blatherer
,
blether
,
blethers
,
blow the whistle
,
blurt
,
blurt out
,
broadcast
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chatterbox
,
chatterer
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
delator
,
disclose
,
dither
,
divulge
,
expose
,
fink
,
gab
,
gabber
,
gabble
,
gabbler
,
gas
,
gasbag
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gibble-gabbler
,
give away
,
go on
,
gossip
,
great talker
,
guff
,
gush
,
haver
,
hot air
,
hot-air artist
,
idle chatterer
,
idle talk
,
inform
,
inform against
,
inform on
,
informer
,
jabber
,
jabberer
,
jaw
,
jay
,
leak
,
let drop
,
let fall
,
let slip
,
magpie
,
mere talk
,
moulin a paroles
,
narc
,
natter
,
noise about
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
patter
,
patterer
,
peach
,
peacher
,
pour forth
,
prate
,
prater
,
prating
,
prattle
,
prattler
,
prittle-prattle
,
ramble on
,
rat
,
rattle
,
rattle on
,
reel off
,
reveal
,
reveal a secret
,
rumor
,
run on
,
sell out
,
sing
,
snitch
,
snitch on
,
snitcher
,
spill
,
spill the beans
,
spout
,
spout off
,
spy
,
squeal
,
squealer
,
stool
,
stool pigeon
,
stoolie
,
talebearer
,
talk
,
talk away
,
talk nonsense
,
talk on
,
talkee-talkee
,
tattle
,
tattle on
,
tattler
,
tattletale
,
tell on
,
tell secrets
,
tell tales
,
telltale
,
testify against
,
tittle-tattle
,
turn informer
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
waffle
,
whistle-blower
,
windbag
,
windjammer
,
word-slinger
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
anthology
collapse
a collection of selected literary passages
related words >
Festschrift
,
album
,
ana
,
analects
,
aquarium
,
beauties
,
body
,
book of verse
,
canon
,
chrestomathy
,
clippings
,
collectanea
,
collected works
,
collection
,
compilation
,
complete works
,
corpus
,
cuttings
,
data
,
delectus
,
excerpta
,
excerpts
,
extracts
,
florilegium
,
flowers
,
fragments
,
fund
,
garden
,
garland
,
gleanings
,
holdings
,
library
,
menagerie
,
miscellanea
,
miscellany
,
museum
,
omnibus
,
photograph album
,
poesy
,
poetic works
,
quotation book
,
raw data
,
scrapbook
,
symposium
,
treasure
,
zoo
leave word
collapse
related words >
acquaint
,
advertise
,
advertise of
,
advise
,
apprise
,
brief
,
bring word
,
broadcast
,
communicate
,
convey
,
disclose
,
disseminate
,
enlighten
,
familiarize
,
get across
,
get over
,
give
,
give notice
,
give the facts
,
give word
,
hand on
,
impart
,
inform
,
instruct
,
let know
,
make known
,
mention to
,
notify
,
pass
,
pass along
,
pass on
,
render
,
report
,
send
,
send word
,
serve notice
,
share
,
share with
,
signal
,
speak
,
tell
,
transfer
,
transmit
,
verse
proverb
collapse
a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
related words >
adage
,
ana
,
analects
,
aphorism
,
apophthegm
,
apothegm
,
axiom
,
bromide
,
byword
,
catchword
,
cliche
,
coin a phrase
,
collected sayings
,
commonplace
,
current saying
,
dictate
,
dictum
,
distich
,
epigram
,
expression
,
gnome
,
golden saying
,
homily
,
maxim
,
moral
,
mot
,
motto
,
oracle
,
phrase
,
pithy saying
,
platitude
,
precept
,
prescript
,
proverbial saying
,
proverbs
,
saw
,
saying
,
sentence
,
sententious expression
,
sloka
,
stock saying
,
sutra
,
teaching
,
text
,
truism
,
verse
,
wisdom
,
wisdom literature
,
wise saying
,
witticism
,
word
,
words of wisdom
prittle prattle
collapse
related words >
babble
,
babblement
,
bavardage
,
be closeted with
,
bibble-babble
,
blab
,
blabber
,
blah-blah
,
blather
,
blether
,
blethers
,
cackle
,
caquet
,
caqueterie
,
chat
,
chatter
,
chitter-chatter
,
clack
,
clatter
,
coze
,
gab
,
gabble
,
gam
,
gas
,
gibber
,
gibble-gabble
,
gossip
,
guff
,
hot air
,
idle talk
,
jabber
,
make conversation
,
mere talk
,
natter
,
nonsense talk
,
palaver
,
prate
,
prating
,
prattle
,
talkee-talkee
,
tete-a-tete
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
twattle
,
visit
,
yak
,
yakkety-yak
slaver
collapse
a person engaged in slave trade
related words >
adulate
,
apple-polish
,
babble
,
be insane
,
beslobber
,
beslubber
,
blandish
,
bootlick
,
cajole
,
compliment
,
conceit
,
cower
,
cringe
,
dote
,
dribble
,
drivel
,
drool
,
expectorate
,
expectoration
,
fawn upon
,
flatter
,
foam
,
froth
,
grovel
,
have a demon
,
hawk
,
kowtow
,
make fair weather
,
mouth-watering
,
nonsense
,
oil the tongue
,
palaver
,
panderer
,
piffle
,
pimp
,
praise
,
ptyalism
,
rage
,
ramble
,
rant
,
rave
,
rubbish
,
run amok
,
run mad
,
saliva
,
salivate
,
salivation
,
sialagogue
,
slabber
,
slobber
,
slobber over
,
spew
,
spit
,
spittle
,
sputum
,
toady
,
truckle
,
twaddle
,
wander
,
water
,
wheedle
roundly
collapse
in a round manner; "she was roundly slim"
related words >
about
,
all but
,
all joking aside
,
almost
,
altogether
,
approximately
,
approximatively
,
as good as
,
bluffly
,
bluntly
,
broadly
,
brusquely
,
candidly
,
completely
,
comprehensively
,
directly
,
entirely
,
exhaustively
,
for practical purposes
,
frankly
,
fully
,
generally
,
generally speaking
,
genuinely
,
globally
,
hundred per cent
,
in all conscience
,
in all seriousness
,
in full
,
in full measure
,
in plain English
,
in plain words
,
in round numbers
,
inclusively
,
inside out
,
integrally
,
just about
,
largely
,
more or less
,
most
,
one and all
,
openheartedly
,
openly
,
outright
,
outspokenly
,
perfectly
,
plain-spokenly
,
plainly
,
practically
,
quite
,
roughly
,
roughly speaking
,
say
,
sincerely
,
straightforwardly
,
thoroughly
,
to the hilt
,
totally
,
tout a fait
,
unconditionally
,
unconstrainedly
,
unreservedly
,
unrestrainedly
,
utterly
,
well-nigh
,
wholly
,
with no nonsense
staid
collapse
related words >
arid
,
barren
,
calm
,
collected
,
composed
,
cool
,
decorous
,
demure
,
dignified
,
dry
,
dull
,
earnest
,
earthbound
,
formal
,
frowning
,
grave
,
grim
,
grim-faced
,
grim-visaged
,
infecund
,
infertile
,
literal
,
long-faced
,
moderate
,
mundane
,
no-nonsense
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prosaic
,
prosing
,
prosy
,
quiet
,
restrained
,
rigid
,
sedate
,
serious
,
serious-minded
,
smug
,
sober
,
sober-minded
,
sobersided
,
solemn
,
somber
,
starchy
,
stiff
,
stolid
,
stone-faced
,
straight-faced
,
stuffy
,
temperate
,
thoughtful
,
unfanciful
,
unideal
,
unimaginative
,
uninspired
,
uninventive
,
unoriginal
,
unpoetic
,
unromantic
,
unromanticized
,
unsmiling
,
weighty
rhyme
collapse
correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
compose rhymes
be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"
related words >
English sonnet
,
Horatian ode
,
Italian sonnet
,
Petrarchan sonnet
,
Pindaric ode
,
Sapphic ode
,
Shakespearean sonnet
,
accord
,
alba
,
alliterate
,
alliteration
,
anacreontic
,
assonance
,
assonate
,
balada
,
ballad
,
ballade
,
beat
,
blank verse
,
bucolic
,
cadence
,
cadency
,
canso
,
cap verses
,
chanson
,
check
,
chime
,
clerihew
,
clink
,
cohere
,
common sense
,
comport
,
conform
,
consist
,
consonance
,
consort
,
correspond
,
crambo
,
dingdong
,
dirge
,
dithyramb
,
double rhyme
,
dovetail
,
drone
,
eclogue
,
elegy
,
epic
,
epigram
,
epithalamium
,
epode
,
epopee
,
epopoeia
,
epos
,
eye rhyme
,
georgic
,
ghazel
,
haiku
,
harping
,
humdrum
,
idyll
,
intelligence
,
jingle
,
jingle-jangle
,
limerick
,
logic
,
lyric
,
madrigal
,
meaning
,
measure
,
meter
,
monody
,
monotone
,
monotony
,
musical thought
,
narrative poem
,
near rhyme
,
nursery rhyme
,
ode
,
organization
,
palinode
,
paronomasia
,
pastoral
,
pastoral elegy
,
pastorela
,
pastourelle
,
pitter-patter
,
poem
,
poesy
,
poetry
,
prothalamium
,
pun
,
rationale
,
rationality
,
repeated sounds
,
repetitiousness
,
repetitiveness
,
rhyme royal
,
rhyme scheme
,
rhyming dictionary
,
rime
,
rondeau
,
rondel
,
roundel
,
roundelay
,
rune
,
satire
,
scan
,
sestina
,
single rhyme
,
singsong
,
slant rhyme
,
sloka
,
song
,
sonnet
,
sonnet sequence
,
soundness
,
stale repetition
,
structure
,
swing
,
tail rhyme
,
tanka
,
tedium
,
tenso
,
tenzone
,
the supreme fiction
,
threnody
,
triolet
,
trot
,
troubadour poem
,
unnecessary repetition
,
unrhymed poetry
,
verse
,
verselet
,
versicle
,
versification
,
villanelle
,
virelay
,
wisdom
couplet
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a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
related words >
Spenserian stanza
,
antistrophe
,
book
,
both
,
brace
,
burden
,
canto
,
chorus
,
couple
,
distich
,
double harness
,
doublet
,
duad
,
duet
,
duo
,
dyad
,
envoi
,
epode
,
heptastich
,
hexastich
,
line
,
match
,
mates
,
measure
,
monostich
,
octastich
,
octave
,
octet
,
ottava rima
,
pair
,
pentastich
,
quatrain
,
refrain
,
rhyme royal
,
septet
,
sestet
,
set of two
,
sextet
,
span
,
stanza
,
stave
,
strain
,
strophe
,
syllable
,
team
,
tercet
,
terza rima
,
tetrastich
,
the two
,
triplet
,
tristich
,
twain
,
two
,
twosome
,
verse
,
yoke
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