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  • 51wind — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I v. twist, [en]twine; coil, curl, spiral; bandage, loop; enfold, in fold; wreathe, roll; crank, reel; sinuate, meander, wander. See convulsion, deviation, rotation. n. See wind. II Current of air Nouns… …

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  • 52blather — [ blaδə] (also blither) verb talk at length without making much sense. noun rambling but empty talk. Origin ME (orig. Scots and north. Engl. dialect): from ON blathra talk nonsense , from blathr nonsense …

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  • 53rattle — I. n. 1. Loud talk, empty talk, clamorous chiding. 2. Jabberer, prater. II. v. n. 1. Clatter. 2. Jabber, talk noisily, chatter, prate, prattle, babble. III. v. a. 1. Stun, deafen, drive ( …

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  • 54tongue — /tʌŋ / (say tung) noun 1. an organ in humans and most vertebrates occupying the floor of the mouth and often protrusible and freely movable, being the principal organ of taste, and, in humans, of articulate speech. 2. Zoology an organ in the… …

  • 55Psilology — Psi*lol o*gy, n. [Gr ? mere + logy.] Love of empty of empty talk or noise. Coleridge. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 56Joseph Goebbels — Goebbels redirects here. For other people named Goebbels, see Goebbels (surname). Dr. Joseph Goebbels Chancellor of Germany In office 30 April …

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  • 57windy — windily, adv. windiness, n. /win dee/, adj., windier, windiest. 1. accompanied or characterized by wind: a windy day. 2. exposed to or swept by the wind: a windy hill. 3. consisting of or resembling wind: a windy tempest of activity. 4. toward… …

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  • 58bosh — empty talk, nonsense, 1834, from Turkish, lit. empty. Introduced in Ayesha, popular romance novel by J.J. Morier (1780 1849) …

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  • 59gas — {{11}}gas (n.) 1650s, from Du. gas, probably from Gk. khaos empty space (see CHAOS (Cf. chaos)). The sound of Dutch g is roughly equivalent to that of Greek kh. First used by Flemish chemist J.B. van Helmont (1577 1644), probably influenced by… …

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  • 60windy — wind•y [[t]ˈwɪn di[/t]] adj. wind•i•er, wind•i•est 1) accompanied or characterized by wind: a windy day[/ex] 2) exposed to or swept by the wind 3) unsubstantial; empty: windy promises[/ex] 4) characterized by or given to prolonged, empty talk;… …

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