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plural of bean
Synonyms & Antonyms of beans
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
active strength of body or mind
- nine-year-old twins who are full of beans
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2
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
- I know something about gardening, and you're full of beans
Synonyms for beans
- applesauce
- [slang],
- balderdash,
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
- [slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
- [British],
- crapola
- [slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
- [British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
- [slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
- [slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
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3
the smallest amount or part imaginable
- had trouble finding a job because he didn't know beans about computers
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beans
verb
present tense third-person singular of bean
Synonyms of beans (Entry 2 of 2)
as in brains, skulls
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for beans
- canes,
- clubs,
- cudgels,
- flails,
- flogs,
- lashes,
- saps,
- slashes,
- sledgehammers,
- sledges,
- spears,
- stabs,
- switches,
- thrashes,
- whips
- bowls (down or over),
- creams,
- decks,
- dumps
- [slang],
- fells,
- floors,
- knocks down,
- levels
- batters,
- beats,
- buffets,
- bungs,
- chops,
- cuffs,
- drubs,
- laces,
- lambastes
- (or lambasts),
- licks,
- mangles,
- mauls,
- pelts,
- peppers,
- pommels,
- pummels,
- roughs
- bangs,
- bashes,
- bats,
- belts,
- biffs,
- bludgeons,
- bobs,
- bonks,
- bops,
- boxes,
- busts,
- claps,
- clips,
- clobbers,
- clocks,
- clouts,
- cracks,
- hammers,
- hits,
- knocks,
- nails,
- pastes,
- pounds,
- punches,
- raps,
- slams,
- slaps,
- slogs,
- slugs,
- smacks,
- smites,
- socks,
- strikes,
- swats,
- swipes,
- tags,
- thumps,
- thwacks,
- wallops,
- whacks,
- whales,
- zaps
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