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| anal-retentive |
in psychoanalysis, having or showing unusual obstinacy, frugality, or an excessive concern with trivial details that supposedly results from conflict over toilet training in childhood. [1/2 definitions] |
| aside |
a comment made by an actor's character on stage that is heard by the audience but not, supposedly, by other characters. [1/6 definitions] |
| Atlantis |
a mythical Atlantic island and ancient civilization west of Gibraltar that supposedly sank into the sea. |
| bogey man |
an imaginary, frightening man that supposedly carries away disobedient children; boogeyman. |
| boogeyman |
an imaginary, frightening man that supposedly carries away disobedient children. |
| bugbane |
any of various flowering plants related to the buttercup, bearing clusters of white flowers whose smell supposedly repels insects. |
| evil eye |
a look or gaze supposedly able to harm the one at whom it is cast. [1/2 definitions] |
| Ouija |
trademark for a board having the alphabet and the numbers 1 through 10 printed on it, and a smaller board on casters which supposedly moves beneath one's fingers by power of spirits to spell out messages. |
| professedly |
supposedly; allegedly. [1/2 definitions] |
| reputedly |
according to popular belief; supposedly. |
| Rosicrucian |
a member of a similar modern society whose doctrines and practices are supposedly based on those of the earlier society. [1/3 definitions] |
| snakeroot |
the North American bugbane, whose white flowers supposedly repel insects. [1/3 definitions] |
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