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  • 81fawn — v kowtow, bow, bow before, bow and scrape, stoop, crouch; kneel, fall on one s knees, fall at the feet of, prostrate oneself; grovel, crawl, creep, creep before, slither, Sl.Tom; cringe, cower, squirm; toady, toady to, truckle, truckle to,… …

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  • 82flatter — v 1. compliment, salute, praise, laud, belaud, extol, exalt, celebrate, glorify, eulogize, panegyrize, adulate, trumpet, cry up, ring or sing [s.o. s] praises; puff, puff up, inflate, magnify, blow up, overpraise, praise to excess, praise to the… …

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  • 83play — n 1. drama, dramatic play, stage play; stage show, show; theatrical piece, theatricals, piece, work, vehicle; screenplay, photoplay, photodrama, Inf. opus; teleplay, television drama or play, TV drama or play; radio drama or play, broadcast… …

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  • 84slaver — v 1. slobber, slabber, drool, drip saliva, drivel. 2. fawn or fawn upon, toady or toady to, truckle or truckle to, toadeat, Sl. fall all over …

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  • 85toady — n 1. sycophant, toadeater, fawner, flatterer, fawning flatterer, truckler, tufthunter, courtier, wheedler, puffer, backslapper, backscratcher, time server, Inf. apple polisher, Sl. brown nose, Sl. brown noser, Sl. brownie, Obs., Rare. blander,… …

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  • 86truck — I [[t]trʌk[/t]] n. 1) trs a usu. large motor vehicle for carrying goods and materials, consisting either of a single self propelled unit or of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit 2) trs any of various wheeled frames, platforms, or carts… …

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  • 87meug-2, meuk- —     meug 2, meuk     English meaning: to slide, slip     Deutsche Übersetzung: A. ‘schlũpfen, schlũpfrig”, out of it ‘schleimig, Schleim”; andererseits B. “darũber streichen, gleiten, entgleiten”     Note: also with anlaut. s     Material: A.… …

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  • 88rēp-1 (rep-?) —     rēp 1 (rep ?)     English meaning: to crawl, sneak     Deutsche Übersetzung: “kriechen, schleichen”     Material: Lat. rēpō, ere “ grovel, truckle, creep, slink”; O.H.G. rebo, reba, repa, M.H.G. rebe ‘schlingschößling”; ablaut. M.L.G. wīn… …

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  • 89(s)leidh- —     (s)leidh     English meaning: slippery, to slide     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schlũpfrig, gleiten”     Note: extension from lei 3, slei above S. 662 f.     Material: O.Ind. srédhati “gleitet ab, geht fehl, errs “; Gk. ὀλισθάνω, Aor. ὤλισθον… …

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  • 90truck — English has two distinct words truck. The earlier, ‘dealings’, as in ‘have no truck with’, was originally a verb, meaning ‘exchange, barter’ [13]. It was borrowed from Anglo Norman *truquer, but its ultimate ancestry is unknown. Americans call a… …

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