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bougie

bougie n. in volleyball, a hit on the head by the ball. Etymological Note: See the 2001 citation. This entry is unrelated to senses of bougie well-covered elsewhere, such as ‘n., (a contemptuous name for) a Black person,’ ‘adj., bourgeois (middle...

fiending

fiending n. craving, desiring, wanting, obsessing (over or about). Editorial Note: This term originally referred to drug addicts but is now trivialized and generified. It acts primarily as a verbal noun. Feenin is a very common alternate spelling...