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Rip van winkle Moderate

Rip van winkle has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a person oblivious to social changes

2

a person who sleeps a lot

3

the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
traditionalist sleeper
Rhyming Words
eckle ickle inkle dekle rickle fuckle turkle hinkle fickle pickle jeckle kinkle nickle cockle winkle runkle mickle cankle finkle muckle
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