What's the word...
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Chris71

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21,549 posts

271 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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...The adjective for something which can be used for many things?

Not felxible, adaptable or versatile, but something like that!

Arrgh, it's ont he tip of my tongue and it feels like being senile! I know what I want, but I can't quite vocalise it.


Famous Graham

26,553 posts

254 months

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Multi-faceted?

eccles

14,376 posts

251 months

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Grease?

Famous Graham

26,553 posts

254 months

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able, accomplished, adaptable, adroit, all-around, all-purpose, ambidextrous, conversant, dexterous, elastic, facile, functional, gifted, handy, ingenuous, many-sided, mobile, multifaceted, plastic, pliable, protean, puttylike, ready, resourceful, skilled, skillful, talented, variable, varied

Big Rod

6,265 posts

245 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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maleable?

Eric Mc

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294 months

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Handy.

o.versteer

3,338 posts

258 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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flexible?

Dift

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256 months

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UNIVERSAL WORKS FOR ME

eccles

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251 months

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Ubiquitous?

LukeBird

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238 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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Dift said:
UNIVERSAL WORKS FOR ME
CAPS LOCK WORKS FOR ME

thebluebus

3,558 posts

246 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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It's "versatile".

You're just so senile you've forgotten you already know it.

dodgyviper

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267 months

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Swiss Army Knife?

Hoppy2008

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224 months

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Ambidextrous

Eddh

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221 months

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Women? rolleyes

AndyKH

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225 months

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MX5?

PD9

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214 months

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Andrex?

JJCW

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215 months

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Male?

okgo

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227 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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AndyKH said:
MX5?
rofl

Warranted.

Graham E

13,018 posts

215 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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Have you not heard?



Strange.


I was under theimpression that everybody had heard that the bird was the word.


B B B Bird bird bird, bird bird bird. b b b bird bird bird, the bird is the word <ad nauseum>

PS - it's probably "versitile" you're looking for.

colonel c

8,053 posts

268 months

Thursday 4th December 2008
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multipurpose