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Slithering
- verb - moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly; "They slid through the wicket in the big gate"
Smattering
- verb - a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
- a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge; "She smatters Russian"
- to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
- work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money"
Smotherers
- noun - a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"
Smothering
- verb - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
- envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy"
- form an impenetrable cover over; "the butter cream smothered the cake"
Softheaded
- adjective - foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working"
Softnesses
- noun - a disposition to be lenient in judging others; "softness is not something permitted of good leaders"
- a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency; "and in softness almost beyond hearing"
- a state of declining economic condition; "orders have recently picked up after a period of extreme softness"; "he attributes the disappointing results to softness in the economy"
- a visual property that is subdued and free from brilliance or glare; "the softness of the morning sky"
- acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered; "his fingers have learned gentleness"; "suddenly her gigantic power melted into softness for the baby"; "even in the pulpit there are moments when mildness of manner is not enough"
- poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)
- the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded
- the quality of being i
Southeasts
- noun - a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city
- the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees
- the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point
- the southeastern region of the United States
Southerner
- noun - an American who lives in the South
- Native of the south
Southernly
- - Somewhat southern. -- adv. In a southerly manner or course; southward.
Spattering
- verb - dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
- spot, splash, or soil; "The baby spattered the bib with food"
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire"