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Dumpy
- adjective - resembling a garbage dump
- short and plump
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
Egypt
- noun - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC
- an ancient empire to the west of Israel; centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh; figured in many events described in the Old Testament
Elaps
- - A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.
Elope
- verb - run away secretly with one's beloved; "The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas"
Elops
- noun - type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder
Epopt
- - One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.
Erupt
- verb - appear on the skin; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant"
- become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while"
- become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce"
- break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted"
- erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism"
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger"
- start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc"
- start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
Etape
- - 2. Stage or leg, as in a race,
- A public storehouse.
Flaps
- noun - a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
- a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
- an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"
- any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely; "he wrote on the flap of the envelope"
- make a fuss; be agitated
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
- move noisily; "flags flapped in the strong wind"
- move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping"
- move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"
- pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds
- the motion made by flapping up and down
Flipe
- - To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on.