worry beads

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[pl.] small BEADS on a string that you move and turn in order to keep calm

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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worry beadsEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary worry beadsEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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worry beads