| fiddledeedee | interj. An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Glede | n. [ See Gleed. ] A live coal. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ] The cruel ire, red as any glede. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Glede | n. [ AS. glida, akin to Icel. gleða, Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i. ] (Zool.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [ Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
| gobbledygook | n. The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook. [ WordNet 1.5 ] Variants: gobbledegook |
| Hobbletehoy | { } n. [ Written also hobbetyhoy, hobbarddehoy, hobbedehoy, hobdehoy. ] [ Cf. Prob. E. hobbledygee with a limping movement; also F. hobereau, a country squire, E. hobby, and OF. hoi to-day; perh. the orig. sense was, an upstart of to-day. ] A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow . [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] All the men, boys, and hobbledehoys attached to the farm. Dickens. . [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Hobbledehoy |
| Ledden | { n. [ AS. lēden, l&ymacr_;den, language, speech. Cf. Leod. ] Language; speech; voice; cry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Leden |
| Tweedledum and Tweedledee | Two things practically alike; -- a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire “On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
