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  • 21waggish — adjective Date: 1589 1. resembling or characteristic of a wag < a waggish friend > < a waggish prose style > 2. done or made in waggery or for sport ; humorous < waggish spoofs of popular songs > • waggishly adverb • waggishness …

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  • 22Breeches role — A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role) is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing (breeches being tight fitting knee length pants, the standard male garment at the time breeches roles were introduced). In opera it can also&#8230; …

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  • 23WAGs — (or Wags) is an acronym used particularly (but by no means exclusively) by the British tabloid press to describe the Wives And Girlfriends of the England national football team. It came into common use during the 2006 World Cup, held in Germany,&#8230; …

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  • 24Jubilate Agno — (Latin, Rejoice in the Lamb ) is a religious poem by Christopher Smart, and was written between 1759 and 1763, during Smart s confinement for insanity in St. Luke s Hospital, Bethnal Green, London. The poem was first published in 1939, under the&#8230; …

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  • 25Eliza Frances Andrews: The Journal of a Georgia Girl — ▪ Primary Source              Eliza Andrews saw the work of Sherman s army about fifty miles east of Dolly Lunt Burge at the end of November. The extracts published here recount her views of the Burnt Country, a swath of territory that had been&#8230; …

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  • 26Charles Ingle — Birth name Auguste Chevalier Also known as Charles Ingle Genres Music hall comedy Occupations Composer Charles Ingle (born Auguste Chevalier …

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  • 27mischief — I noun annoyance, criminality, cruelty, damage, damnum, danger, detriment, devilment, deviltry, disservice, evil, evil conduct, fault, foul play, frolicsomeness, harm, harmful action, hurt, ill consequence, impishness, incommodum, infliction,&#8230; …

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  • 28devilment — Synonyms and related words: aggravation, annoyance, bad news, bedevilment, bitchiness, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, crashing bore, cussedness, devilishness, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, difficulty, dogging, downer, drag, elfishness …

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  • 29devilry — Synonyms and related words: Black Mass, Satanism, arrantness, badness, baseness, bitchiness, black magic, chthonian worship, cruelty, cussedness, demonism, demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy, demonry, devil lore, devil&#8230; …

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  • 30flippancy — Synonyms and related words: absentmindedness, banter, booing, brashness, brassiness, brazenfacedness, brazenness, carelessness, catcalling, chaffing, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, contempt, derision, discourtesy, disregard, disregardfulness,&#8230; …

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