These are the meanings of the letters GUMBY when you unscramble them.
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Bug (n.)
A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
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Bug (n.)
A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
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Bug (n.)
An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
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Bug (n.)
One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
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Bug (n.)
One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
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Bum (n.)
The buttock.
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Bum (v. i.,)
To make murmuring or humming sound.
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Bum (n.)
A humming noise.
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Buy (v. t.)
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
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Buy (v. t.)
To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
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Buy (v. i.)
To negotiate or treat about a purchase.
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Gum (n.)
The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
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Gum (v. t.)
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
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Gum (n.)
A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
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Gum (n.)
See Gum tree, below.
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Gum (n.)
A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.
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Gum (n.)
A rubber overshoe.
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Gum (v. t.)
To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
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Gum (v. i.)
To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
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Guy (n.)
A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
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Guy (v. t.)
To steady or guide with a guy.
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Guy (n.)
A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
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Guy (n.)
A person of queer looks or dress.
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Guy (v. t.)
To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
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Mug (n.)
A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
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Mug (n.)
The face or mouth.