puppy love, calf love, enchantment, obsession, fixation. b. sweetheart, sweetie, flame, spark; inamorata, true love, ladylove, light of one's life, Inf. girl; inamorato, best beau, favorite, boy friend, c. flirt, coquette, U.S. Inf. vamp; Casanova, philanderer, SI. lounge lizard; SI. masher, Inf. dirty old man.
-v. 3. crush, pulp, pulpify, smash, squash, masticate, jellify; beat, pound, thresh; bruise, contuse, crunch, Inf. smush, Inf. scrunch.
4. mix, combine, unite, unify, incorporate, consolidate, inosculate; alloy, amalgamate, syncretize; blend, merge, coalesce, put together.
5. Slang, flirt with, court, pay court to; woo, make love to, Inf. spark, set one's cap for, address, sue, press one's suit; attempt to beguile, make overtures to, attempt to seduce, proposition. mask, n. 1. masque, false face, vizard, visor, domino, grotesque face, Halloween mask.
2. swim mask, snorkel mask, diving helmet.
3. theatrical mask, tragic mask, comic mask, witchdoctor's mask; death mask, life mask.
4. disguise, guise, cover, camouflage, incognito, veil; mummery, shield, deflection, false front, false colors, pretense, obscuration; false identity, Inf. cover, pseudonym, alias.
5. masker, mask wearer, masquer, mummer, mime, domino; disguiser, incognito, Zorro; secret agent, undercover man, spy, double agent, government agent, U.S. narcotics agent, U.S. Inf. narc, U.S. F.B.I. agent, U.S. C.I.A. agent, vice-squad member, plainclothes policeman or policewoman; imposter, wolf in sheep's clothing, pretender, poseur, fraud, charlatan, Inf. fake, Inf. faker, bluffer, Inf. bluff; milk masquerading as cream.
6. protective mask, surgeon's mask, industrial mask, shop mask, safety goggles, gas mask; hockey goalie's mask, catcher's mask, fencer's mask, skier's mask, football facemask.
7. masquerade, masque. See masquerade (def. 1).
-v. 8. disguise, conceal, hide, obscure; screen, cloak, shroud, cover; dissimulate, feign, put on, pretend, fake, put on an act, posture, sail under false colors, put on a false front, Inf. four-flush; Inf. dish bull, deceive, beguile, Inf. pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, hood-wink, flim-flam; conceal the real facts, act hypocritical, be deceptive, make pretensions; lie, be mendacious, be untruthful, deceive; be Machiavellian, be two-faced.
9. masquerade, put on a mask, veil, masque, adopt a disguise, disguise oneself; go incognito, Inf. go underground, Inf. fade into the woodwork, affect a pseudonym. masked, adj. 1. disguised, mask-wearing, concealed, hidden, camouflaged; veiled, obscured, covered, shrouded, screened.
2. incognito, under a pseudonym, masquerading, flying under false colors, parading as something else, pretending; posturing, affected, bluffing, fake, false, fraudulent; hypocritical, deceptive, dissembling, pre-varicative, prevaricatory, evasive, shifty; lying, mason, n. bricklayer, brickmason, stonemason, tiler, Scot. cowan, Brit. Dial, diker. masonry, n. 1. bricklaying, brickmasonry, stone-masonry, tiling.
2. stonework, brickwork, rubblework, rubble, masquerade, n. 1. masked ball, mask, masque, masquerade ball, costume party, Fr. bal masque, Fr. balpare, Fr. bal costume; mummery, revel, harlequinade, carnival, Mardi gras, Halloween party.
2. costume, disguise, mummery, theatrical costume; mask, visor, domino; camouflage, cloak