MOORHEN Synonyms

• any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens

• A young cow or bull.

• Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

• A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).

• A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

• A small island, near a larger island.

• A cabless railroad engine.

• An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

• The back of the leg below the knee.

• The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.

• A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.

• A young female animal.

• (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young woman

• A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)

• A queen (the playing card.)

• A term of endearment. (see usage notes)

• One's girlfriend.

• One's daughter.

• A roebuck two years old.

• Cocaine, especially in powder form.

• (somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).

• A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.

• A domestic cat, especially a non-pedigree or unremarkable cat.

• A kind of cake made with ginger, treacle, etc.

• An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.

• A tall, thin, awkward person.

• Anything that appears terrifying but presents no danger.

• A person clad in rags and tatters.

• A bird, the black tern.

• A slut, a sexually promiscuous woman.

• A dirty and untidy woman.

• black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes