- Dun|drear|y
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long whiskers on both sides of the face but not on the chin.╂[< Dundreary, a character in the play Our American Cousin (1858) by Tom Taylor]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Dun|drear|y
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drear — drear·i·head; drear·i·ly; drear·i·ment; drear·i·ness; drear·i·some; dun·drear·ies; drear; drear·i·hood; drear·ly; drear·ness; … English syllables
dun — dun·al; dun·bar·ton·shire; dun·can; dun·ci·cal; dun·ci·fy; dun; dun·das·ite; dun·dathu; dun·dee; dun·der·funk; dun·der·head; dun·der·head·ed; dun·der·pate; dun·drear·ies; dun·edin; dun·ga·ree; dun·ga run·ga; dun·ge·ness; dun·ka·doo; dun·ker;… … English syllables
dundrearies — /dun drear eez/, n.pl. (sometimes cap.) long, full sideburns or muttonchop whiskers. Also called dundreary whiskers. [1860 65; after the sideburns worn by actor Edward A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary, a character in the play Our American Cousin… … Universalium
dundrearies — dun·drear·ies … English syllables
dundreary whiskers — noun plural see dundrearies * * * Dun|drear|y «duhn DRIHR ee», noun, plural drear|ies, or Dundreary whiskers, long whiskers on both sides of the face but not on the chin. ╂[< Dundreary, a character in the play Our American Cousin (1858) by Tom … Useful english dictionary
head — arrow·head; beach·head; be·head; be·head·al; bir·ken·head; block·head·ism; blunt·head; bog·head; bonnet·head; bra·den·head; bulk·head·ed; bull·head·ed·ly; bull·head·ed·ness; chow·der·head; chuck·le·head·ed; cop·per·head·ism; dou·ble·head·er;… … English syllables
ness — ness·ber·ry; ness·ler·iza·tion; ness·ler·ize; ness·ler s; new·fan·gled·ness; new·ness; news·i·ness; nice·ness; nig·gard·li·ness; nig·gard·ness; nigh·ness; nip·pi·ness; no·ble·ness; nois·i·ness; non·cha·lant·ness; north·er·li·ness; north·ness;… … English syllables
dark — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, Gothicism, Stygian, ableptical, abominable, abstruse, adiaphanous, age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad,… … Moby Thesaurus
gloomy — Synonyms and related words: Acheronian, Acherontic, Cassandra like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Cimmerian, Stygian, acheronian, acherontic, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous, castellatus, cheerless,… … Moby Thesaurus
gray — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white, bloodless, boring, buckskin,… … Moby Thesaurus
