used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
(usually followed by “to”) having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
the part of the day between noon and evening
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
anew
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
past form of “ask” — make a request or demand for something to somebody
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
a small piece or quantity of something
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
bungalownounUS /ˈbʌŋɡəloʊ/
a small house with a single story
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
a seat for one person, with a support for the back
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
From this reading “Glue?” asked Uncle Wiggily, curious like.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
DUMPTY
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From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form)
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
travel through the air; be airborne
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
FuzzyadjectiveUS /ˈfʌzi/
covering with fine light hairs
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
a man of refinement
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
glueverbUS /ɡluː/
join or attach with or as if with glue
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
the act of departing
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
hollow-stump
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From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
a specific instance of feeling hopeful
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
housekeepernounUS /ˈhaʊskiːpər/
a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
HUMPTY
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From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
I'll
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From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
on condition that; in the event that
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
Jane
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From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
a polite name for any woman
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
past form of “laugh” — produce laughter
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
the act of departing
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading “Glue?” asked Uncle Wiggily, curious like.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
muskratnounUS /ˈmʌskræt/
the brown fur of a muskrat
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
a condition requiring relief
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
not any; not one
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
many times at short intervals
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
not allowed to continue to bat or run
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
rabbitnounUS /ˈræbət/
any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
cut with a saw
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
be seated
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
a thing, without saying which
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
put, fix, force, or implant
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
stickyadjectiveUS /ˈstɪki/
having the sticky properties of an adhesive
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
in spite of the fact that
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
the act of traveling by foot
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “Oh, no!” laughed Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy, “though if you keep on going out so often, the way you do, I’ll need a bit of sticky fly paper, or something like that, to keep you at home.”
at the time that
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
WIGGILY
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From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “I hope you are not going to put it in my chair, so when I sit down I will stick fast, and not be able to get up again.”
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
Wuzzy
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From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading UNCLE WIGGILY AND HUMPTY DUMPTY “UNCLE WIGGILY, would you mind bringing me some glue when you come home from your walk this afternoon?” asked Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady housekeeper, as she saw the rabbit gentleman leaving his hollow-stump bungalow one day.
