Word Meanings - CRACKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pintail duck. 7. pl. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick

Additional info about word: CRACKER

The pintail duck. 7. pl. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, cracks. 2. A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak. 3. A small firework, consisting of a little powder inclossed in a thick paper cylinder with a fuse, and exploding with a sharp noise; - - often called firecracker. 4. A thin, dry biscuit, often hard or crisp; as, a Boston cracker; a Graham cracker; a soda cracker; an oyster cracker. 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

Related words: (words related to CRACKER)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CRACKSMAN
  A burglar.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• BEPOWDER
  To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.