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Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
gumshoeing
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gumshoeing — gum|shoe|ing [ˈgʌmˌʃu:ıŋ] n [U] AmE informal when you try to find out information about something = ↑detective work … Dictionary of contemporary English
gumshoe — I. noun Date: 1913 detective II. intransitive verb (gumshoed; gumshoeing) Date: 1930 to engage in detective work … New Collegiate Dictionary
gumshoe — /gum shooh /, n., v., gumshoed, gumshoeing. n. 1. Slang. a detective. 2. a shoe made of gum elastic or India rubber; rubber overshoe. 3. sneaker (def. 1). v.i. 4. Slang. a. to work as a detective. b. to go softly, as if wearing rubber shoes; move … Universalium
crawl — Synonyms and related words: Australian crawl, abound, all fours, amble, andante, aquaplaning, aquatics, backstroke, balneation, bathe, bathing, bend the knee, blister, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, breaststroke, butterfly, castigate, claudicate … Moby Thesaurus
crawling — Synonyms and related words: abject, accumbent, alive with, all fours, ambling, amphibian, anguine, atiptoe, atmospherics, backscratching, batrachian, beggarly, blaring, blasting, blind spot, bootlicking, bristling, bursting, cautious, circumspect … Moby Thesaurus
creep — Synonyms and related words: SOB, all fours, amble, andante, bastard, bend the knee, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bugger, claudicate, claudication, couch, cower, crawl, crawling, creeping, cringe, crouch, dead march, dogtrot, drag, drag along,… … Moby Thesaurus
creeping — Synonyms and related words: all fours, ambling, amphibian, anguine, atiptoe, atmospherics, batrachian, blaring, blasting, blind spot, cautious, cautiousness, circumspect, circumspection, claudicant, colubriform, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping… … Moby Thesaurus
nightwalking — Synonyms and related words: all fours, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, gumshoeing, night wandering, noctambulation, noctambulism, noctivagant, noctivagation, padding, prowling, pussyfooting, scrabble, scramble, sidling, sleepwalk, sleepwalking … Moby Thesaurus
padding — Synonyms and related words: aegis, all fours, arm guard, backstop, battology, bedizenment, bonus, buffer, bulwark, bumper, bush, bushing, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cushion, cushioning, dashboard,… … Moby Thesaurus
pussyfooting — Synonyms and related words: Washingtonese, all fours, bickering, boggling, bunkum, captious, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive,… … Moby Thesaurus
scrabble — Synonyms and related words: all fours, barbouillage, beat about, bore, burrow, clamber, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, delve, dig, dig out, dike, doodle, dredge, drill, drive, excavate, feel around, feel for, fumble, furrow, go on tiptoe,… … Moby Thesaurus
