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  • 1Bullies — Bully Bul ly (b[.u]l l[y^]), n.; pl. {Bullies} (b[u^]l l[i^]z). [Cf. LG. bullerjaan, bullerb[ a]k, bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. buhle.] 1. A noisy,… …

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  • 2Bully — Bul ly (b[.u]l l[y^]), n.; pl. {Bullies} (b[u^]l l[i^]z). [Cf. LG. bullerjaan, bullerb[ a]k, bullerbrook, a blusterer, D. bulderaar a bluster, bulderen to bluster; prob. of imitative origin; or cf. MHG. buole lover, G. buhle.] 1. A noisy,… …

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  • 3fop — n Fop, dandy, beau, coxcomb, exquisite, dude, buck are comparable when denoting a man who is conspicuously fashionable or elegant in dress or manners. Fop is applied to a man who is preposterously concerned with fashionableness, elegance, and… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 4Vladimir Nabokov — This article is about the novelist. For his father, the politician, see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov in 1969 …

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  • 5buck — [OE] Old English had two related words which have coalesced into modern English buck: bucca ‘male goat’ and buc ‘male deer’. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic stem *buk , and beyond that probably to an Indo European source. The 18th century… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 6buck — [OE] Old English had two related words which have coalesced into modern English buck: bucca ‘male goat’ and buc ‘male deer’. Both go back to a prehistoric Germanic stem *buk , and beyond that probably to an Indo European source. The 18th century… …

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  • 7bust|er — «BUHS tuhr», noun. 1. U.S. a person who breaks horses: »a bronco buster. 2. Informal. as a form of address: a) a small boy. b) a fellow. 3. Informal. something very big, striking, or remarkable of its kind. 4. Slang. a dashing fellow. 5. Informal …

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  • 8buck — I. noun (plural bucks) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bucca stag, he goat; akin to Old High German boc he goat, Middle Irish bocc Date: before 12th century 1. or plural buck a male animal; especially a male deer or antelope 2. a …

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  • 9Hikōtei Jidai — is a fifteen page, all watercolor manga, on which the animated film Porco Rosso is based. It was published in Model Graphix in three parts, a monthly magazine about scale models, as a part of Hayao Miyazaki s Zassou Note series. Like other manga… …

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  • 10The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov — (in some British editions, The Collected Stories) is a posthumous collection of every known short story that Vladimir Nabokov ever wrote, with the exception of The Enchanter . The thirteen stories not previously published in English are… …

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