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yellow-bellied, chicken, chicken-livered, lily-livered, gutless:
I knew this strapping marine when he was a timid little boy.
tinker v. trifle, dabble, meddle, mess (around or about), toy, fool or
play (around or about), Brit potter or US putter (about or
around), Colloq fiddle or monkey or muck (about or around):
Graham has always enjoyed tinkering with engines.
tinny adj. 1 shabby, flimsy, flimsily or poorly made, shoddy,
inferior, cheap, tawdry: He bought himself a tinny old
rattletrap of a car. 2 metallic, harsh, twangy: She plays that
tinny old trumpet day and night.
tint n. 1 tincture, wash, hue, colour, cast; tinge, touch, hint,
trace, dash, colouring, shade, tone, suggestion: In the west a
tint of pink lingered in the sky. I thought I detected a tint of
anger in his voice. 2 dye, rinse, wash, stain, tincture,
colourant, colouring, touch-up: What's the harm in granny's
using blue hair tint?
--v. 3 dye, stain, colour, rinse, tinge, touch up: Sandra
tints her hair to give it a coppery sheen. 4 tinge, colour,
influence, affect, taint, stain: A deep pessimism tints all his
writing.
tiny adj. microscopic, infinitesimal, minute, minuscule, diminutive,
wee, small, little, miniature, micro, mini, pocket,
pocket-sized, bantam, pygmy or pigmy, midget, Lilliputian,
petite, delicate, dainty, elfin, slight, insignificant,
negligible, trifling, paltry, inconsequential, puny, Colloq
pint-sized, teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy, itty-bitty,
itsy-bitsy: She wore the tiniest bikini I had ever seen. When I
saw them together I realized how tiny she is. Forgetting my
birthday was only a tiny thing.
tip° n. 1 end, extremity, peak, apex, summit, vertex, cap, top,
pinnacle, tiptop, crown, head, terminal, ferrule or ferule,
finial, nib or neb, point: The tip of the mountain showed above
the clouds. He broke off the tip of the billiard cue.
--v. 2 top, cap, crown, surmount: The foil is tipped with a
rubber button to prevent injury.