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To call names

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to apply opprobrious epithets to; to call by reproachful appellations.

See also: Name



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But now Marija was able to call names in English, and so she got the woman who made the mistake to disliking her.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
“It’s far easier to call names than to shoot a buck on the spring; but the creatur came by his end from a younger hand than either your’n or mine, as I said before.
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