DOBBIN Synonyms
There are 4 hypernyms of the word dobbin. (close relations)
Definition of DOBBIN
Best Alternative Words for DOBBIN
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| hack | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
noun • one who works hard at boring tasks • a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends • a mediocre and disdained writer • a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil • a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money • an old or over-worked horse • a horse kept for hire • a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. verb • cut with a hacking tool • be able to manage or manage successfully • cut away • kick on the arms • kick on the shins • fix a computer program piecemeal until it works • significantly cut up a manuscript • cough spasmodically | ||||||||
| jade | nounn | |||||||
noun • a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite • a woman adulterer • a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green • an old or over-worked horse adjective satellite • of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green verb • lose interest or become bored with something or somebody • exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | ||||||||
| knight | nounn | |||||||
noun • originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit • a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) verb • raise (someone) to knighthood | ||||||||
| nag | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault • an old or over-worked horse verb • bother persistently with trivial complaints • worry persistently • remind or urge constantly | ||||||||
| pony | nounn | |||||||
noun • a range horse of the western United States • an informal term for a racehorse • a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) • a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey • any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | ||||||||
| smack | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) • the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth • a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast • street names for heroin • an enthusiastic kiss • the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand adverb • directly verb • deliver a hard blow to • have an element suggestive (of something) • have a distinctive or characteristic taste • kiss lightly • press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating | ||||||||
| steed | nounn | |||||||
noun • (literary) a spirited horse for state of war | ||||||||
| trot | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a slow pace of running • radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution • a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) • a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike the ground together verb • run at a moderately swift pace • ride at a trot • cause to trot | ||||||||
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| farm horse | nounn | |||||||
noun • a quiet plodding workhorse | ||||||||
| pommel horse | nounn | |||||||
noun • a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end | ||||||||
| vaulting horse | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting | ||||||||
| h | ||||||||
noun • the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-second • a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe • the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet • a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second • the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet • (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure | ||||||||
