name-dropper



adventurer, elitist, highbrow, mandarin, parvenu, prig, snob, sprout, upstart ,

   smartness - acuity, agility, alacrity, aptitude, attention, banter, brightness, brilliance, chic, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, elegance, esprit, expedition,

   marmoset - ape, gorilla, man, primate ,

   possessing - blessed with, claim, colony, compelling, compulsive, driving, endowed, fee position, fee simple, feud, fiefdom, freehold, gripping, hold, holding,

   hold in derision - deride, despise, disdain, disregard, flout, laugh at, make fun of, pan, pillory, point at, rag, ride, ridicule, roast, scoff at,

   evil-favoured - grim, ill-favoured, ill-gotten ,

   dyke - auntie, bi-guy, bisexual, bull dyke, butch, chicken, fag, faggot, fairy, femme, flit, fruit, homo, homosexual, hoyden,

   rack rent - hot economy, inflation, inflationary spiral, luxury price, pretty penny, rent, rental, rising prices, spiralling prices ,

   basset horn - English horn, bassoon, clarinet, fife, flute, oboe, ocarina, piccolo, pipe, recorder, reed, saxophone, sweet potato, whistle, woods,

   poultry farm - barnyard, collective farm, croft, demesne, dude ranch, fallow, farm, farmland, farmstead, grange, grassland, hacienda, homestead, kibbutz, location,

   cockleshell - boat, canoe, cruiser, ferry, scallop, shell ,