Word Meanings - DOUGHFACE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded.

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• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• MOLDING; MOULDING
  A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• TIMID
  Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
• YIELDER
  One who yields. Shak.
• MOLDABLE; MOULDABLE
  Capable of being molded or formed.
• TIMIDOUS
  Timid. Hudibras.
• POLITICIAN
  1. One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman. While empiric politicians use deceit. Dryden. 2. One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party;
• MOLD; MOULD
  mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the
• NICKNAME
  A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation. (more info) ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick,
• MOLDBOARD; MOULDBOARD
  A follow board. (more info) 1. A curved plate of iron back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.
• YIELDLESS
  Without yielding; unyielding.
• EASILY
  1. With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen. 2. Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily. Sir W. Temple. 3. Readily;
• MOLDERY; MOULDERY
  Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• BED-MOLDING; BED-MOULDING
  The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
• SMOLDERINGNESS; SMOULDERINGNESS
  The state of smoldering.
• NECKMOLD; NECKMOULD
  A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.
• INTIMIDATORY
  Tending or serving to intimidate.
• UNEASILY
  In an uneasy manner.
• INTIMIDATE
  To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;