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Archaic, glister, glint; shimmer, shine, flicker, sparkle, twinkle; waver, dance, flutter, fluctuate, oscillate, vacillate; radiate, glow, phosphoresce, incandesce, make radiant; dazzle, bedazzle, blind, scintillating, adj. 1. sparkling, glittering, twinkling, flickering, flashing, scintillant; shimmering, shim-mery, gleaming, resplendent, dazzling, blinding; shining, glimmering, glistening, glistering, lustrous, (of a gem or pearl) orient; luminous, lucent, radiant, effulgent, lambent; beamy, bright, brilliant, vivid, nitid; flaming, blazing.
2. lively, stimulating, invigorating, exciting, brisk, spirited, dynamic; vivacious, buyoant, sanguine, effervescent; enthusiastic, hearty, heated, scion, n. 1. descendent, heir, successor; offspring, issue, child, progeny.
2. shoot, offshoot, twig, branch, stem, cutting, graft; sprout, sprig, spray. scoff, n. 1. jeer, gibe, sneer, fleer, flout, fling, raillery, chaff; poke, dig, cut, rub, barb; insult, Inf. brickbat, aspersion, obloquy, slur, invective, disparagement, defamation; taunt, quip, wisecrack, thrust, skit; boo, hiss, hoot, catcall, cry, U.S. raspberry; derision, scorn, mockery, ridicule, sarcasm.
2. laughingstock, gazingstock, joke, byword; butt, victim, Inf. the one on the receiving end, object, target, Chiefly Bril. Aunt Sally, Inf. goat, scapegoat; dupe, gull, gudgeon, cat's-paw, U.S. SI. fall guy, SI. patsy, Inf. sucker. -v. 3. Often scoff at mock, jeer, gibe, sneer at, fleer at, gird; make light of, dismiss, make fun of, laugh at, spoof, ridicule, knock, deride; taunt, tease, twit, rag, chaff, rib, kid, SI. razz; hiss, boo, hoot at, heckle, rail at, catcall; scorn, flout, contemn, disdain, scold, v. 1. chide, reprimand, Inf. dress down, Inf. trim, upbraid, U.S. Inf. bawl out, SI. chew out, tongue-lash; reprove, reproach, rebuke, rate, reprehend, castigate; chastise, rap [s.o.'s] knuckles, slap [s.o.'s] wrists; Inf. give [s.o.] a piece of one's mind, Inf. tell [s.o.] a thing or two, tell off, tell [s.o.] where to get off; take [s.o.] to task, call down, Inf. let [s.o.] have it, SI. give [s.o.] the business, give [s.o.] hell, SI. lay [s.o.] out in lavender, Inf. rake over the coals, Inf. skin alive, SI. pin [s.o.'s] ears back, Inf. blast or blast off, SI. let [s.o.] have it with both barrels, Inf. jump on or all over, Inf. jump down [s.o.'s] throat, throw [s.t.] in [s.o.'s] face; call to account, bring to book, call on the carpet, read the riot act, lay down the law, lecture, talk to, admonish; Inf. come down hard on, SI. light into, Inf. rip into, Inf. tear into, lace into, Inf. sail into, Inf. raise the roof; condemn, censure, reprobate, criticize, Inf. get down on [s.o.], remonstrate, animadvert on; denounce, denunciate, objurgate, berate, vituperate; blame, charge, accuse, impute, indict; inveigh against, rail against, decry, declaim, run down, fulminate against; lash, vilify, curse, revile, vilipend. -n. 2. chider, rebuker, castigator, vituperator, re-viler; nag, fishwife, SI. battle-ax; hag, crone, harridan, beldam; shrew, hellcat, Xanthippe, virago, termagant; fury, tigress, amazon, scolding, n. reprimand, chiding, Inf. dressing down, Inf trimming, U.S. Inf bawling-out, tongue-lashing, hell; reproof, reproval, reproach, rebuke, castigation; chastisement, rap on the knuckles, slap on the wrists; talking-to, lecture, admonishment, warning; condemnation, censure, reprehension, animadversion, criticism, remonstration, remonstrance; disapprobation, disapproval, objection* disparagement, deprecation; denunciation, denouncing, tirade, philippic, execration, invective; objurgation, berating, vituperation, contumely; reprobation, imprecation, fulmination, detraction, derogation; stricture, aspersion, obloquy, traducement, defamation, vilification, vilipending; inveighing, declamation; blame, accusation, imputation, indictment.
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