HANGMAN SOLVER

adv

1. (archaic) In the rear; a distance behind.
2. (archaic) Towards the back or rear; backwards.
3. (nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way.
4. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)

noun

1. (obsolete) An abacus.

noun

1. A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and longan.
2. The fruit of the tree, of which only the arils are edible, the remainder being poisonous.

noun

1. (regional, now rare) A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
2. Obsolete form of acre.

noun

1. A silver coin once used in the Gold Coast (in Africa)

adv

1. In a cocked or turned-up fashion.
2. defiantly

intj

1. An expression of sorrow or mourning.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given name Alexander.

adv

1. Alternative form of amok

noun

1. (Cambridge University, with "the") The backyard of the University.
2. plural of back

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of back

noun

1. Alternative spelling of baccy

noun

1. plural of beck

Noun

1. A placeholder name used to refer to a (usually white) woman held in contempt by the speaker.

adj

1. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
2. (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
3. (US) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
4. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
5. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
6. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
7. (of a place, etc) Without light.
8. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
9. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
10. (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
11. (politics) Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
12. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
13. (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
14. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
15. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
16. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
17. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
18. Foul; dirty, soiled.
19. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
20. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

noun

1. (Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
2. (US, slang) Marijuana.
3. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
4. (billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
5. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
6. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
7. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
8. (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
9. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
10. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
11. (informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
12. (informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
13. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
14. (sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
15. A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

verb

1. (Britain, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
2. (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
3. (transitive) To make black; to blacken.

intj

1. (rare) Alternative form of blech

noun

1. (dialectal) Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
2. (obsolete) A black man.
3. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
4. Soot, smut.

verb

1. (obsolete, dialect) To blacken.
2. (obsolete, dialect) To defile.

noun

1. A sawed-off length of something.
2. The brightening or iridescence appearing on silver or gold at the end of the cupelling or refinishing process.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of gold or silver: To exhibit blick.
2. (nonce word, transitive, intransitive) To make, or cause to make, a soft, crisp sound.
3. (transitive) To shine, gleam.

noun

1. (UK) Solitary confinement.
2. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
3. (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
4. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
5. (cricket) A blockhole.
6. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
7. (cricket) The popping crease.
8. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
9. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
10. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
11. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
12. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
13. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
14. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
15. (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
16. (slang) The human head.
17. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
18. (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
19. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
20. A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
21. A cellblock.
22. A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
23. A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
24. A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
25. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
26. A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
27. A roughly cuboid building.
28. A section of split logs used as fuel.
29. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
30. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
31. A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
32. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
33. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
34. Misspelling of bloc.
35. Something that prevents something from passing.
36. The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.

verb

1. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
2. (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
3. (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
4. (transitive) To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
5. (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
6. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
7. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
8. (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
9. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
10. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
11. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
12. (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
13. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).

noun

1. plural of bock

noun

1. (obsolete) Salty or brackish water.
2. A flaw in cloth.
3. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
4. Barmbrack.

adj

1. (colloquial, African-American Vernacular, New England, of weather) Extremely cold.

noun

1. (UK, naval, slang) A projectile.
2. (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
3. (computing slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
4. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
5. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
6. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
7. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
8. (poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
9. (slang) A kilogram of cocaine.
10. (slang, dated) A helpful and reliable person.
11. (uncountable) Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
12. The colour brick red.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
2. (transitive) To build, line, or form with bricks.
3. (transitive) To make into bricks.
4. (transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
5. (transitive, slang) To hit someone or something with a brick.

noun

1. (UK) a male badger.
2. (archaic, possibly obsolete) A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
3. (obsolete) A dirty, stinking fellow.

noun

1. Buckaroo.
2. Young lad, friend, pal (used in addressing someone).

noun

1. Casual oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral colour.
2. plural of buck

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of buck

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A gun.
2. (medicine, informal) Alternative form of Bucky (“a Potter-Bucky diaphragm”)

noun

1. (Bristol) Underpants
2. (Ireland) Trousers

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cack

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cake

noun

1. One who forms something into a cake.

noun

1. plural of cake

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cake

adj

1. Alternative spelling of caky

noun

1. Alternative form of chakra

noun

1. plural of calk

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calk

noun

1. plural of cark

noun

1. plural of cask

noun

1. A composition of vehicle and pigment used at ambient temperatures for filling/sealing joints or junctures, that remains elastic for an extended period of time after application.
2. Alternative form of calk (“pointed projection on a horseshoe”)
3. Caulking.

verb

1. (nautical) To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight.
2. (slang) To copulate.
3. To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials.

adj

1. Resembling or relating to cawk.

noun

1. A snack or light hasty meal.

verb

1. (ice-skating) To not broadcast a medal-winning or otherwise memorable or crucial figure skating performance. This only occurs in a live broadcast because the network has to decide which programs to show and which to cut in the interest of time. If a skater is low in the rankings and several big names are set to skate later, that performance may be cut.
2. Of birds: to make a sudden harsh call.
3. To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.

noun

1. (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
2. (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
3. (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horseracing) The favorite in a sporting event.
4. (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO4), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
5. (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3).
6. (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
7. Tailor's chalk.

verb

1. (figuratively) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
2. To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
3. To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
4. To manure (land) with chalk.
5. To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
6. To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.

noun

1. (India) The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in making bangles, especially Turbinella pyrum.

verb

1. (US) To eat noisily; to champ or chomp.

noun

1. (US, Alaska) A wine glass.
2. A Middle Eastern falcon, probably the lanner.
3. A pointed stick, which when placed with the point against another piece of wood, and spun rapidly in alternate directions with the aid of attached cords, produces enough heat by friction to create a fire; a fire drill.
4. Charcoal; coke.

verb

1. (Scotland) To make a grating sound.
2. To reduce by strong heat, as to produce charcoal or coke; to calcine.

adj

1. (heraldry) Divided into small squares (chequers) by transverse vertical and horizontal lines.

noun

1. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
2. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
3. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
4. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
5. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
6. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
7. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
8. A control; a limit or stop.
9. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
10. A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
11. A small chink or crack.
12. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
13. An inspection or examination.
14. Any fabric woven with such a pattern.

verb

1. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
2. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
3. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
4. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
5. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
6. (poker) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
7. (sports) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
8. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
9. (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
10. To act as a curb or restraint.
11. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
12. To control, limit, or halt.
13. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
14. To inspect; to examine.
15. To leave in safekeeping.
16. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
17. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
18. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
19. To verify or compare with a source of information.
20. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).

noun

1. (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
2. (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
3. (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
4. (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
5. (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit. .
6. (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
7. (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
8. Either side of an axehead.
9. One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.

verb

1. Don't cheek me, you little rascal!
2. To be impudent towards.
3. To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.

noun

1. (Turkish units of measurement) A unit of weight equal to 200 kg (441 lbs.).
2. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 100 dirhems (variously .15–.35 kg).
3. (historical units of measurement) A former Turkish unit of weight equal to 180 okas.

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
3. (dated, endearing) A young child.
4. (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
5. A young bird.
6. A young chicken.

verb

1. (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

noun

1. (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
2. (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
3. (uncountable, colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
4. A chip or dent in something metallic.
5. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
6. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
7. Alternative letter-case form of Chink

verb

1. (intransitive) To crack; to open.
2. (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
3. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
4. (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
5. (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

adj

1. (colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits

noun

1. the sound of a spoon rapidly whisking around a pot or basin.

verb

1. (intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.
2. (transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.
3. To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

verb

1. Obsolete form of choke.

adv

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.

noun

1. (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
2. (obsolete) An encounter.
3. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
2. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
3. (obsolete) To encounter.
4. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
5. To make a dull sound.

noun

1. (electronics) A choking coil.
2. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
4. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
5. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
6. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
7. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

verb

1. (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
2. (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
3. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
4. (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
6. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
7. (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
8. (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
9. (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
10. (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
11. (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
12. (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
13. (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
14. (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A chayote.
2. A small handleless cup in which saké is served.

adj

1. Alternative form of chokey

adj

1. (slang, of an animal) Adorably fat or large.

noun

1. (slang) An adorably fat or large creature, particularly a cat.
2. Alternative form of chank (“type of shell”)

intj

1. (Australia) A call made to chickens.
2. An imitation of the call of a chicken.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
3. (Australia, dated) A fool.

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
2. (India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
3. (India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

noun

1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
3. (US, slang, dated) Food.
4. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
5. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
6. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
7. (informal) A casual throw.
8. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
9. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
10. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
11. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
12. A clucking sound.
13. A gentle touch or tap.
14. Abbreviation of woodchuck.

verb

1. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
2. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
3. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
4. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
5. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
6. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
7. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
8. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
9. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
10. To call, as a hen her chickens.
11. To make a clucking sound.
12. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
13. To touch or tap gently.

noun

1. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
2. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
3. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
4. A part of something that has been separated.
5. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

verb

1. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
2. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
3. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
4. (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

noun

1. (colloquial) The tongue.
2. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway between a click and a clunk.
3. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
4. Chatter; prattle.

verb

1. (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
2. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
3. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
4. Dated form of cluck.
5. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.

noun

1. (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
2. (Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.

verb

1. (Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.

noun

1. Alternative form of claik (the barnacle goose)

noun

1. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a clanking sound
2. (transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.

Proper noun

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3. a city in South Dakota, USA, and county seat of Clark County.

verb

1. (chiefly Scotland, transitive) To hatch (a bird); (colloquial) to give birth to (a person).

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) A large hook.
2. (golf, dated) A metal-headed golf club with little loft, equivalent in a modern set of clubs to a one or two iron or a four wood.

verb

1. (golf, dated, transitive) To strike with the club called a cleek.

noun

1. (Quakerism) A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
2. (archaic) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk).
3. (dated) A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and cherished by some of their number).
4. (obsolete) A scholar.
5. A law clerk.
6. A salesclerk; a person who serves customers in a store or market.
7. An employee at a hotel who deals with guests.
8. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

verb

1. The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
2. To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk

intj

1. The sound of a click.

noun

1. (Britain) The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
2. (UK, dialect) The latch of a door.
3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A knock or blow.
4. (US) Misspelling of clique.
5. (by extension) A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
6. (graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
7. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
8. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
9. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
10. A pawl or similar catch.
11. Alternative spelling of klick
12. Sound made by a dolphin.
13. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.

verb

1. (Britain) To snap the fingers.
2. (computing) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
3. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
4. (intransitive) To emit a click.
5. (intransitive) To get along well.
6. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
7. (intransitive, India) Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
8. (intransitive, India) To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
9. (intransitive, graphical user interface) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
10. (obsolete) To snatch.
11. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
12. (transitive, India) To take (a photograph) with a camera.
13. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit (a web site).
14. (transitive, graphical user interface) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.

noun

1. (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
2. (slang) A prison.
3. Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.

verb

1. (humorous, dated) To rhyme.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To clinch; to rivet.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.

noun

1. (Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.
2. (figurative) That which conceals; a disguise or pretext.
3. A blanket-like covering, often metaphorical.
4. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.

verb

1. (science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To render or become invisible via futuristic technology.
2. (transitive) To cover as with a cloak.
3. (transitive, figurative) To cover up, hide or conceal.

noun

1. (Britain) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
2. (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
3. (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
4. (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
5. (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
6. A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
7. A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
8. A time clock.
9. An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
10. The seed head of a dandelion.

verb

1. (Britain, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
2. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To hatch.
3. (Scotland, intransitive, dated) To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
4. (slang) To take notice of; to realise; to recognize someone or something.
5. (transgender slang) To identify someone as being transgender.
6. (transitive) To measure the duration of.
7. (transitive) To measure the speed of.
8. (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
9. (transitive, Britain, New Zealand, slang) To beat a video game.
10. (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.

noun

1. Archaic spelling of cloak.

noun

1. (fishing) A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.
2. The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.

noun

1. A kind of tongue click used to urge on a horse.
2. Any sound similar to this.
3. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks.

verb

1. (Britain, drug slang) to suffer withdrawal from heroin.
2. (transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
3. To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens.

noun

1. (dated) The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
2. A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into contact.

verb

1. to make such a sound

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of cock

noun

1. plural of cock

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cock

adj

1. Overly confident; arrogant and boastful.

noun

1. (also attributively) Short for cockatoo farmer (“small-scale farmer”); (by extension) any farmer or owner of rural land.
2. (chiefly Britain, Ireland, Newfoundland, colloquial, dated) Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
3. A (familiar name for a) cockatoo.

verb

1. (intransitive, chiefly Australia, informal, historical) To operate a small-scale farm.

adj

1. Intoxicated with cocaine.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of coke

noun

1. (category theory, informal) cokernel
2. (derogatory, slang) A cocaine addict, a cokehead
3. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured

noun

1. plural of coke

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of coke

noun

1. plural of conk

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conk

adj

1. (slang) Having a prominent nose.

Proper noun

1. for a cook, or a seller of cooked food.

noun

1. plural of cook

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cook

adj

1. Misspelling of kooky.

noun

1. Dated spelling of cookie.

noun

1. plural of cork

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cork

adj

1. Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
2. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.

adj

1. Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
2. Highly trained and competent.

noun

1. (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
2. (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
3. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
4. (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
5. (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
6. (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
7. (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
8. (figurative, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
9. (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
10. (informal) An attempt at something.
11. (informal) The space between the buttocks.
12. (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
13. (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
14. (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
15. (obsolete) One who excels; the best.
16. (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
17. (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
18. (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
19. (slang, dated, UK) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
20. (vulgar, slang) Vagina.
21. A narrow opening.
22. A sharp, resounding blow.
23. A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
24. A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
25. The tone of voice when changed at puberty.

verb

1. (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
2. (colloquial) To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
3. (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
4. (intransitive) To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
5. (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
6. (intransitive) To form cracks.
7. (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
8. (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
9. (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
10. (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
11. (obsolete) To brag; to boast.
12. (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
13. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
14. (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
15. (transitive) To open slightly.
16. (transitive) To overcome a security system or component.
17. (transitive) To tell (a joke).
18. (transitive, chemistry) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
19. (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
20. (transitive, figurative) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
21. (transitive, figurative) To solve a difficult problem.
22. (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.

noun

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of crake
2. (Scotland, Ireland) Misspelling of craic.

noun

1. (obsolete) A crack; a boast.
2. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.

verb

1. (obsolete) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
2. To cry out harshly and loudly, like a crake.

adj

1. (nautical, of a ship) Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
2. (slang) Strange, weird, odd.
3. Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
4. Sick; unwell.

noun

1. (US, slang) Synonym of methamphetamine.
2. (archaic) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage.
3. (archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.
4. (informal) An advocate of a pseudoscience movement.
5. (informal) An ill-tempered or nasty person.
6. (informal, Britain, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others. They may behave in unconventional ways.
7. (obsolete) A sick person; an invalid.
8. (rare) A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
9. A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
10. A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
11. Clipping of crankshaft.
12. The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
13. a fit of temper or passion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
2. (intransitive) To be running at a high level of output or effort.
3. (intransitive) To turn a crank.
4. (intransitive, dated) To run with a winding course; to double; to crook; to wind and turn.
5. (intransitive, of a crank or similar) To turn.
6. (transitive) To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
7. (transitive) To turn by means of a crank.

noun

1. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
2. (intransitive, figurative) To suffer from strain or old age.
3. (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
2. (Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
3. Any turn or winding.

noun

1. (Appalachia) Alternative form of creek
2. A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
3. A small jackscrew.
4. The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

verb

1. To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
2. To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
3. To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

noun

1. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
2. The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)
3. The harsh call of various birds, such as the raven or corncrake, or other creatures.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a croak.
2. (intransitive, of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its sound.
3. (slang) To die.
4. (transitive) To utter in a low, hoarse voice.
5. (transitive, slang) To kill someone or something.
6. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually.

noun

1. (UK) A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury.
2. (UK) An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe).
3. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness.
4. (slang, Canada, US, countable and uncountable) Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense.
5. A low stool.
6. A piece of broken pottery, a shard.
7. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
8. Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth.
9. The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut.

verb

1. (horticulture) To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage.
2. (intransitive) To give off crock or smut.
3. (textiles, leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another.
4. (transitive, now dialectal) To put or store (something) in a crock or pot.
5. To break something or injure someone.

adj

1. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Illegal; dishonest.
2. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) No good; bad.
3. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Of a horse, broken down, not useful as a work horse due to illness or infirmity.
4. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) Unwell, sick.

noun

1. (Isle of Man) A hill or barrow.
2. The honking sound of a goose.

verb

1. To honk like a goose.

adj

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.

noun

1. (music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
2. (obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
3. (obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
4. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
5. A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
6. A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
7. A bishop's standard staff of office.
8. A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
9. A pothook.
10. A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
11. An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
2. (transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
3. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

noun

1. (architecture) A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs.
2. A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck.

verb

1. (dialectal, transitive) To make lame.

adj

1. (US, slang) Crazy and intoxicated.

noun

1. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To cry like a crane.

noun

1. plural of cuke

noun

1. plural of cusk

noun

1. plural of deck

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deck

noun

1. plural of dick

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dick

adj

1. (colloquial) doubtful, troublesome; in poor condition
2. (informal, vulgar) like a dick, foolish or obnoxious

noun

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
2. (India) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
3. (UK, dialect) A donkey.
4. (UK, dialect) A hedge sparrow.
5. (UK, military slang) A pilot.
6. (colloquial) A louse.
7. (dated) A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant.
8. (dated) A seat in a carriage, for the driver.
9. (historical) A leather apron for a gig, etc.
10. (idiomatic, UK, in negative constructions) An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
11. (slang, dated) A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
12. A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
13. A haddock.
14. A small bird; a dicky-bird.

noun

1. A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices
2. plural of dock

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dock

noun

1. (informal) Trash; worthless merchandise.

noun

1. (Britain, chiefly Northern England, used vocatively) Dear (used as a pet name).
2. (nautical) The light trousers worn by sailors in hot climates.
3. (poker slang) A pair of twos.
4. plural of duck

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of duck

adj

1. (slang, dated) Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion.
2. Darling, charming, cute.
3. Resembling or characteristic of a duck.

noun

1. (childish) A duck (aquatic bird), especially a toy rubber duck.
2. (slang, obsolete, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
3. An affectionate pet name.

noun

1. Alternative form of eric (“fine paid as compensation for violent crimes”)

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fack

noun

1. (in minced oaths) Faith.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of feck

noun

1. (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
2. Alternative spelling of flak.

verb

1. (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
4. (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.

noun

1. A flake.
2. A lock, as of wool.
3. A small spot or streak; a speckle.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark (something) with small spots.

noun

1. (dated, slang) A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
2. (fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
3. (informal) A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
4. (tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
5. A flitch.
6. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
7. A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
8. The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.

verb

1. To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
2. To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.