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nana
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noun
  1. (informal) Short form of banana, the fruit.
  2. (slang) A fool.
You look a right dressed up like that.
narrow
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verb
  1. To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
adjective (narrow, er)
  1. having a small width; not wide; slim; slender; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
a hallway
  1. (figuratively) restrictive, Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
a interpretation
neap
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noun
  1. The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
verb
  1. To trap a ship (or ship and crew) in water too shallow to move from due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
    • 1770: At 8, being high water, hauld her bow close ashore, but Keept her stern afloat, because I was afraid of Neaping her, and yet it was necessary to lay the whole of her as near the ground as possible. " w:Captain James Cook, Captain James Cook, Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, entry for 22 June 1770 http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8106
adjective (neaper, neapest)
  1. Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is least difference between high tide and low tide.
  • 1934: Little groups of sailors came swinging along and pushied their way noisily inside the gaudy joints. Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a tide that swept the props from under the city. " Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
necessary
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noun (necessari, es)
  1. (context, archaic, British) bathroom, toilet, loo
adjective
  1. needed, required
nicker
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noun (plural )
  1. (British slang) Pound sterling.
    This coat cost me 50 nicker.
  2. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
verb to nicker
  1. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
no-see-um
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noun no-see-'um, um
  1. Leptoconops torrens, a small biting fly
  2. any biting "bug" or insect that is normally too small to see unaided.
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