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noun • a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot • a tapered tuck made in dressmaking • a sudden quick movement verb • move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart • run or move very quickly or hastily • move with sudden speed | ||||||||
| 34% | 7 | A darter dragonfly; a hydroplane; a milk sieve; a shearwater; a stone for ducks and drakes; or, a tern-like bird with a blade-like lower mandible | ||||||
noun • a rapid superficial reader • a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids • a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown • gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food | ||||||||
| 31% | 9 | To move quickly and erratically, like a butterfly or a dragonfly | ||||||
verb • To blow a short gust. • To waffle, talk aimlessly. • To waste time. • To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along. • (of a bird) To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other. • To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about. • To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle. • To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle. • To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter. noun • Aimless talk; waffle. • A breathy noise, as of a horse or a bird. | ||||||||
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