DOBBINS Synonyms

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

• lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

• exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

• 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)

• raise (someone) to knighthood

• someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

• an old or over-worked horse

• bother persistently with trivial complaints

• worry persistently

• remind or urge constantly

• 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

• 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

• directly

• 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

• (literary) a spirited horse for state of war

• 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

• run at a moderately swift pace

• ride at a trot

• cause to trot

• a quiet plodding workhorse

• 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

• a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting

• 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