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Dumbbell   /dˈəmbˌɛl/   Listen
Dumbbell

noun
1.
An exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle.
2.
An ignorant or foolish person.  Synonyms: boob, booby, dope, dummy, pinhead.






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"Dumbbell" Quotes from Famous Books



... we have seen, the ordinary use of terms is limited by some suppositio, and this is true of Contradictories. 'Human' and 'non-human' may refer to zoological classification, or to the scope of physical, mental, or moral powers—as if we ask whether to flourish a dumbbell of a ton weight, or to know the future by intuition, or impeccability, be human or non-human. Similarly, 'visible' and 'invisible' refer either to the power of emitting or reflecting light, so that the words have no hold upon a sound or a scent, or else to power of vision and such qualifications ...
— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... well. He also descries promise in the figure of Mr. George himself, striding towards them in his morning exercise with his pipe in his mouth, no stock on, and his muscular arms, developed by broadsword and dumbbell, weightily asserting themselves ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens



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