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Chip :: Chip (n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously..

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) Money; coin; -- used in contempt.

Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.

Kern :: Kern (n.) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt..

Crone :: Crone (n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt.

Try :: Try (n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

Exploder :: Exploder (n.) One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.

Endeavor :: Endeavor (v. t.) To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

Paddy :: Paddy (n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

Contemptible :: Contemptible (a.) Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

Flirt :: Flirt (v. t.) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.

Lording :: Lording (n.) A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule..

Philanthropinism :: Philanthropinism (n.) A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau..

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not able to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable; as, weak resolutions; weak virtue..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..

Peat :: Peat (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

Despite :: Despite (n.) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

Opprobrium :: Opprobrium (n.) Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language.

Tempt :: Tempt (v. t.) To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce..

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