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fountain of wisdom on the subject of basket-weaving.<br />

foxy<br />

adj. 1 clever, sly, cunning, wily, crafty, tricky, guileful,<br />

shifty, devious, slippery, smooth, slick, artful, resourceful,<br />

ingenious, calculating, designing, plotting, scheming,<br />

disingenuous, knowing, shrewd, sharp, astute, wise; foxlike,<br />

vulpine; Colloq cagey or cagy: Be careful dealing with him, for<br />

he can be foxy. 2 attractive, alluring, seductive, vampish,<br />

Colloq sexy: Margo is a very foxy lady.<br />

6.6 fracas...<br />

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=fracas<br />

n. 1 trouble, disturbance, commotion, rumpus, fuss, hubbub,<br />

pandemonium, hullabaloo, uproar, disorder, scramble, scuffle,<br />

brawl, rough-house, rough-and-tumble, turmoil, tumult,<br />

free-for-all, riot, fray, brouhaha, mˆl‚e or melee, Law affray;<br />

Brit scrum, US brannigan; Colloq ruckus, punch-up, Slang Brit<br />

bovver: It was football hooligans who caused the fracas after<br />

the game. 2 argument, disagreement, quarrel, dispute, discord,<br />

wrangle, altercation, squabble, spat, tiff, fight, row, tussle,<br />

Donnybrook, brawl, Colloq barney, scrap: After the referee's<br />

ruling, a fracas broke out.<br />

fracture n. 1 break, breakage, breaking: An old fracture makes him walk<br />

with a limp. 2 break, crack, split, rupture, breach,<br />

separation, cleavage, division, rift: We can permit no fracture<br />

in the united front we present to the voters.<br />

--v. 3 break, rupture, crack, split, breach, separate, cleave:<br />

He fractured three vertebrae in the accident.<br />

fragile adj. frail, breakable, brittle, frangible, delicate, dainty,<br />

thin, light, slight, weak, feeble, infirm, decrepit; tenuous,<br />

shaky, flimsy, rickety, unsubstantial or insubstantial: Because<br />

of her great age, her bones had become fragile. The argument in<br />

favour of acquittal is very fragile, indeed.<br />

fragment n. 1 piece, portion, part, chip, shard or sherd, splinter,<br />

sliver, scrap, bit, speck, snippet, morsel, crumb, particle,<br />

remnant, shred, snatch: A fragment of the airliner was found<br />

twenty miles from the crash. 2 fragments. smithereens; debris,

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