(tinder)

  • 71Miles Tinker — Miles Albert Tinker is an American author. He is an internationally recognized authority on legibility of print [1] who published the results of some of the most comprehensive studies on the legibility of print ever conducted. Tinker conducted… …

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  • 72punk — Synonyms and related words: German tinder, JD, Mickey Mouse, a nobody, a nothing, amadou, amiss, auntie, awful, bad, balderdash, baloney, barbarian, barfy, base, bi guy, bisexual, bosh, brat, bull dyke, bum, bunk, bunkum, butch, catamite, cheap,… …

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  • 73spunk — Synonyms and related words: German tinder, adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, amadou, ambitiousness, backbone, bang, bottle, bottom, chutzpah, courage, dash, dauntlessness, doggedness, drive, dynamism, enterprise,… …

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  • 74Fuel — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fuel >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fuel fuel firing combustible =>(solid fuels) GRP: N solid fuels Sgm: N solid fuels coal coal wallsend anthracite culm coke carbon charcoa …

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  • 75punk — {{11}}punk (1) 1896, inferior, bad, also something worthless, earlier rotten wood used as tinder (1680s), probably from Delaware (Algonquian) ponk, lit. dust, powder, ashes; but Gaelic spong tinder also has been suggested (Cf. spunk touchwood,… …

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  • 76tinderbox — box in which tinder and flint are kept, 1520s, from TINDER (Cf. tinder) + BOX (Cf. box) (n.); fig. sense of inflammable person or thing is attested from 1590s …

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  • 77sponk — Spunk Spunk (sp[u^][ng]k), n. [Gael. spong, or Ir. sponc, tinder, sponge; cf. AS. sponge a sponge (L. spongia), sp[=o]n a chip. Cf. {Sponge}, {Punk}.] [Written also {sponk}.] 1. Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made …

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  • 78Spunk — (sp[u^][ng]k), n. [Gael. spong, or Ir. sponc, tinder, sponge; cf. AS. sponge a sponge (L. spongia), sp[=o]n a chip. Cf. {Sponge}, {Punk}.] [Written also {sponk}.] 1. Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a… …

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  • 79Hans Christian Andersen — Infobox Writer name = Hans Christian Andersen birthdate = birth date|1805|4|2|mf=y birthplace = Odense, Denmark deathdate = death date and age|1875|8|4|1805|4|2|mf=y deathplace = Copenhagen, Denmark occupation = novelist, short story writer,… …

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  • 80Mushroom — The mushroom Amanita muscaria, commonly known as fly agaric A mushroom is the fleshy, spore bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name mushroom is the cultivated… …

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