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yard bird |
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a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison |
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yard bird |
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a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks |
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yardbird |
Noun
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a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison |
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yardbird |
Noun
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a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks |
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yes-man |
Noun
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a person of unquestioning obedience |
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yes man |
Noun
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a person of unquestioning obedience |
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yearner |
Noun
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a person with a strong desire for something |
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yeller |
Noun
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someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice |
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yielder |
Noun
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a person who yields or surrenders |
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young buck |
Noun
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a teenager or a young adult male |
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younker |
Noun
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a young person, especially a young man or boy |
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young Turk |
Noun
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a young radical who agitates for reform |
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yuppie |
Noun
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a young upwardly mobile professional individual |
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yachtsman |
Noun
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a person who owns or sails a yacht |
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yanker |
Noun
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someone who gives a strong sudden pull |
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yardie |
Noun
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member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence |
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yardman |
Noun
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a laborer hired to do outdoor work |
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yardman |
Noun
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worker in a railway yard |
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yardmaster |
Noun
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a railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard |
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yawner |
Noun
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a person who yawns |
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yenta |
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from Yiddish, a woman who talks too much |
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yenta |
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from Yiddish, a vulgar shrew |
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yeoman |
Noun
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in former times was free and cultivated his own land |
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yeoman |
Noun
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officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch |
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yodeller |
Noun
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a singer who changes register rapidly, popular in Swiss folk songs |
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yogi |
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one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight |
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yokel |
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a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture |
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yahoo |
Noun
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a person who acts recklessly or dangerously |
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yahoo |
Noun
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a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture |
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yellow cypress |
Noun
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tall evergreen of the Pacific coast of North America often cultivated for ornament |
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yellowwood |
Noun
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any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract |
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yellowwood |
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the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees |
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yacca |
Noun
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West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves |
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yew |
Noun
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any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves |
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yellow poplar |
Noun
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tall North American deciduous timber tree having large tulip-shaped greenish yellow flowers and conelike fruit |
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yellow poplar |
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light easily worked wood of a tulip tree |
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yellow root |
Noun
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a perennial herb found in the northeastern United States, identifiable by a thick, knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves |
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yautia |
Noun
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tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes |
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yellow chamomile |
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Eurasian perennial herb with hairy divided leaves and yellow flowers |
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yarrow |
Noun
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ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets |
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yellow lady-slipper |
Noun
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maroon to purple-brown orchid with yellow lip |
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yellow loosestrife |
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frequently considered a weed |
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yardgrass |
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coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers |
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yellow bristlegrass |
Noun
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common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas |
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yellow iris |
Noun
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common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated |
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yellow globe lily |
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globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers |
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yellow clintonia |
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common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits |
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yucca |
Noun
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any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, typically characterized by tall, stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers |
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yellow jasmine |
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poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers |
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yellow cleavers |
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common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw |