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3S Awful Book Crossword Clue

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noun

• (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)

• an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre

27%3 "Awful, just awful!"
interjection

• Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.

• Used to express inarticulate vocalisations, such as used by a caveman.

27%4 (After 9) Little music maker with awful band in awful place
noun

• a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck

• a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)

• a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed

• English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)

• the sound of a bell being struck

• United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)

• (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

• the shape of a bell

• a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument

• the flared opening of a tubular device

verb

• attach a bell to

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