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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Informal Common sense; gumption.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A crude, instinctive kind of common sense, independent of instruction or experience; a coarse, robust, and conspicuous form of shrewdness often found in ignorant and rude persons; plain, practical good sense.

Wiktionary

  1. n. idiomatic Common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom independent from, and trumping, formal education.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. [Colloq. U.S.] strong common sense.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. sound practical judgment

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  1. sagaciousness
  1. judgment
  1. discernment
  1. sagacity
  1. judgement

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  1. nous
  1. logic
  1. road sense

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  2. steeling
  3. philosoph
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  2. businesswoman
  3. heaven-daring
  1. proveth
  2. pugilistic
  3. pranic
  1. correctional
  2. longshoreman
  3. epidermal
  1. self-contradictory
  2. hydrochloric
  3. ungentle
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  1. equine
  1. war-horse
  1. harness
  1. sowar
  1. horse
  1. winged

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  • fbharjo maverick faberic! Apr 10, 2008

  • gangerh Delightful quote SoG. First time I've seen it! Feb 26, 2008

  • sonofgroucho "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." W. C. Fields,US actor (1880 - 1946).

    Feb 26, 2008

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