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What is the native word for describing an expression or gesture
What will be the perfect word for expressing huff, pride or sulking like when children angry with their parents and sit in the corner and don't want to talk with them . What word generally a native ...
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What is it called when you call someone on the phone over and over again? [closed]
What is it called when you call someone on the phone over and over again? I'm looking for a slang word or phrase.
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Is there a word for someone who sells false hope to calm nerves?
Rainmaking is a superstitious belief that performing a dance will make rain come. I guess it's somewhat analogous to the term snake oil salesman but, whereas snake oil salesman sell their bill of ...
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Are there any words or terms when 'a small daughter dancing with her dad with her feet on top of his'?
I'm writing my story and I had the idea to have both the characters to dance with one of them standing on the other's feet. But whenever I tried to search the word or term nothing showed up. The only ...
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Single word when you know destination but not path
Is there a single word which describes knowing the destination but not the path?
Knowing the objective but not the method?
Knowing the 'what' or 'where' but not the 'how'?
In a sense this would be the ...
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Describing a person who is smirking or whose lips are pursed
What is a way to describe a person who is smirking or whose lips are pursed? I'm looking for a simple phrase or word that describes a series of conflicting and contradicting emotions being displayed ...
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What do you call social network accounts owned by the same person?
Say there's a person who has registered more than one account on the same social network and writes from these accounts pretending they belong to different people. What would you call such accounts?
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A term for: When a taste or smell of a product is being concealed by another product
Let's say, we create a smoothie and some ingredients are much stronger than others and they literally beat out the taste/smell of the other ingredients.
a. We can't add durian because it will ...
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Are there any cool slang words for "couch potato"? [closed]
Seems like this word is a bit old-fashioned. What do youngsters call lazy procrastinators nowadays?
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What is a "vehicle" category or classification for skateboards, bicycles, scooters etc?
I am putting together information regarding common suburban vehicles. I have a list of vehicle categories with several vehicle examples in each category. For example:
SUV
Ford Explorer
Jeep Wrangler
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Is there a word for a location where there is no signal or means of digital communication?
Is there a word or slang word that can be used to describe somewhere that is no signal or means of digital communication? (i.e Off the Grid)
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Is there a name for "the string of characters typed randomly on a keyboard home row"?
Or, in other words, is
asdf;ksa;llfsdfsadfasdk;lfjasjfdk;lasfjldfjsafjdsl;fjajfdlksaj
called something? Does this specific phenomenon have a name? Could you refer to it generically, as in, "The ...
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Stage or studio furniture
Is there a collective name for the table/bench/chair configuration used by contestants on such as family TV game shows?
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Is there an idiom or typical expression for an unfunny joke? [closed]
Could you tell me some suitable idioms to express this situation:
A guy told you a joke, but it's not funny at all.
In Japanese, we say "He slipped" or "His joke was so cold that the air got ...
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What is it called when people use words like ur and u in place of your, and you? [duplicate]
And why do people say it's lazy and bad? Why do people call others stupid for it, when it's intentional and I don't really think its wrong in casual conversations through text (obviously not speech)
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