strapping - adipose, basting, battery, beating, beefy, belting, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bouncing, brawny, buffeting, burly, buxom,
quicken - accelerate, activate, actuate, advance, advantage, aid, animate, arouse, awake, awaken, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, boost, brace,
fawn-coloured - beige, brown, brunet, chocolate, drab, dun, ecru, fawn, hazel, khaki, lurid, seal, sepia, sorrel, tan,
denominated - named, styled, titled ,
top-hole - capital, excellent, neat, striking, topflight, topping, tops ,
Davy Jones - Neptune, fresh-water nymph, man fish, mermaid, naiad, nix, ocean nymph, sea devil, sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman, siren, water god,
distract - absorb, addle, agitate, amuse, ball up, befuddle, beguile, bemuse, bewilder, blunt, bother, bug, call away, chill, confound,
in succession - by stages, consecutively, hand running, hierarchically, in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column, in file, in order, in sequence, in series, in single file, in turn,
parlance - choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, lingua, locution, parole, personal usage,
in name only - alleged, apparently, artificially, avowed, byname, claimed, diminutive, epithetic, erroneously, falsely, formal, honorific, hypocritical, nominal, nominally,
quicken - accelerate, activate, actuate, advance, advantage, aid, animate, arouse, awake, awaken, be begotten, be born, be incarnated, boost, brace,
fawn-coloured - beige, brown, brunet, chocolate, drab, dun, ecru, fawn, hazel, khaki, lurid, seal, sepia, sorrel, tan,
denominated - named, styled, titled ,
top-hole - capital, excellent, neat, striking, topflight, topping, tops ,
Davy Jones - Neptune, fresh-water nymph, man fish, mermaid, naiad, nix, ocean nymph, sea devil, sea god, sea nymph, sea-maid, sea-maiden, seaman, siren, water god,
distract - absorb, addle, agitate, amuse, ball up, befuddle, beguile, bemuse, bewilder, blunt, bother, bug, call away, chill, confound,
in succession - by stages, consecutively, hand running, hierarchically, in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column, in file, in order, in sequence, in series, in single file, in turn,
parlance - choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression, formulation, grammar, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, lingua, locution, parole, personal usage,
in name only - alleged, apparently, artificially, avowed, byname, claimed, diminutive, epithetic, erroneously, falsely, formal, honorific, hypocritical, nominal, nominally,