Meaning of போலி in English

Consisting of, or containing, a bog or bogs; of the nature of a bog; swampy; as, boggy land.
A goblin; a specter; a frightful phantom; a bogy; a bugbear.
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.
A liquor made of rum and molasses.
Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
One who is dumb.
A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
A thick-witted person; a dolt.
A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.
A floating barge connected with a pier.
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
To make; to construct; to do.
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
A trick; a swindle.
Inscribed with a false name.
Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids.
A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.
Falsely romantic.
of Pseudovary
The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.
Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

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