slovo | definícia |
eery (mass) | eery
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eery (encz) | eery,strašidelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
eery (encz) | eery,tajemný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
eery (encz) | eery,tajuplný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
eery (encz) | eery,záhadný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Eery (gcide) | Eerie \Ee"rie\, Eery \Ee"ry\, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]
1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts;
wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
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She whose elfin prancer springs
By night to eery warblings. --Tennyson.
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2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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eery (wn) | eery
adj 1: inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening; "an
uncomfortable and eerie stillness in the woods"; "an
eerie midnight howl" [syn: eerie, eery] |
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beery (encz) | beery,opilecký adj: Zdeněk Brožbeery,pivní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cheery (encz) | cheery,radostný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
cheery-bye (encz) | cheery-bye, |
leery (encz) | leery,podezíravý adj: [slang.] PetrVleery,protřelý adj: PetrVleery,vychytralý adj: [slang.] PetrV |
veery (encz) | veery, n: |
Beery (gcide) | Beery \Beer"y\, a.
Of or resembling beer; affected by beer; maudlin.
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Cheery (gcide) | Cheery \Cheer"y\, a.
Displaying evident cheerfulness; cheerful; lively; gay;
bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person; a cheery hello.
Syn: pleasant, sunny.
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His cheery little study, where the sunshine
glimmered so pleasantly. --Hawthorne.
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Eery (gcide) | Eerie \Ee"rie\, Eery \Ee"ry\, a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]
1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts;
wild; weird; as, eerie stories.
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She whose elfin prancer springs
By night to eery warblings. --Tennyson.
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2. Affected with fear; affrighted. --Burns.
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Peery (gcide) | Peerie \Peer"ie\, Peery \Peer"y\, a. [See 1st Peer, 2.]
Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Two
peery gray eyes." --Sir W. Scott.
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Uncheery (gcide) | Uncheery \Uncheery\
See cheery. |
Veery (gcide) | Veery \Veer"y\, n. (Zool.)
An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the
Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown
above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown.
Called also Wilson's thrush.
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Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion. --Thoreau.
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beery (wn) | beery
adj 1: smelling of beer |
cheery (wn) | cheery
adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a
cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn:
cheery, gay, sunny] |
leery (wn) | leery
adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn:
leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting,
wary] |
veery (wn) | veery
n 1: tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song [syn:
veery, Wilson's thrush, Hylocichla fuscescens] |
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