blastie

Scottish

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Noun
  • Embark's DNA tests screens for more than 400 breeds of dog, including wild animals such as dingoes, coyotes, wolves and village dogs, helping owners of mixed breeds understand their pet's ancestry.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Waste, agriculture, and energy increasingly intersect as crop residues and animal waste produce electricity and biofuels.
    Maurice Obeid, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • My favorite Maginot menagerie beastie remains the multi-eyed crawling eyeball, who in this episode takes up residence within the eye socket of a Prodigy lab goat.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Most of the remaining beasties now live on remote islands near the equator, and most humans would conveniently like to forget them.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • This includes the eyeball alien that’s possessed the sheep, a rapidly growing Xenomorph, and large, flying bug-like creatures that have made a little hive for themselves.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Thousands of skeletal creatures were lying on bunks unable to move, while dead bodies were piled in heaps all around the camp, reeking of putrefaction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Shop Deli Gifts 11 Dead on I-80 in 2009 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering—Find out what rhymes with varmint!
    Megan Cummins August 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Another disadvantage: Adding banana peels directly to the soil may attract unwelcome varmints.
    Marin Independent Journal, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, cats were rewarded for using their hunting skills to keep settlements free from vermin.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Each fits into typical RPG classes — with Armon being the close combat brute, Harlow the magical crowd control specialist, Rafa the agile rogue, and Vex serving as a summoner who calls on minions to do the dirty work.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Mihály is a brute who mistreats his mother.
    Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Dogs can bark, but robots can talk back Even the most advanced quadruped robot on the market today can’t match a real dog’s innate sense of smell or its highly developed navigational instincts.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The quadruped bot has four legs that can be equipped with wheels instead of conventional foot pads.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Stores like Target, Walmart, and Amazon are replete with an eclectic array of builds from seasonally appropriate critters to gorgeous botanicals that act as verdant home décor.
    Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Yards with moles, mice, or other critters are especially tempting, triggering a canine's natural prey drive.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Blastie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blastie. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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