BURLEY

Etymology

Noun

burley (countable and uncountable, plural burleys)

(US) A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes. [from late 19th c.]

(Australia) Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.

Anagrams

• uberly

Proper noun

Burley

A surname.

One of two villages in England.

A city, the county seat of Cassia County, Idaho, United States.

A census-designated place in Washington.

Anagrams

• uberly

Source: Wiktionary



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BOORISH

(adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; “was boorish and insensitive”; “the loutish manners of a bully”; “her stupid oafish husband”; “aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude”


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