A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in China to punish petty criminals.
catgut
catgut
noun
(countable) A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc.
(uncountable) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
(uncountable) The material from which such cords are made.
caught
caught
adj
(cricket) Of the method of being out in which the striker hits the ball and a fielder catches it.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of catch
cayuga
cayuga
Noun
One of an indigenous people of North America, part of the
Proper noun
The Northern Iroquoian language of the Cayuga people.
an unincorporated community and county seat of Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.
an unincorporated community in Livingston County, Illinois, USA.
a town in Vermillion County, Indiana, USA.
a village in Cayuga County, New York, USA.
a tiny city in Sargent County, North Dakota, USA.
an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Texas, USA.
an unincorporated community in Ashland County, Wisconsin, USA.
chagul
cheung
chough
chough
noun
Either of two species of bird of the genus Pyrrhocorax in the crow family Corvidae that breed mainly in high mountains and on coastal sea cliffs of Eurasia.
The white-winged chough, of genus Corcorax in the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, that inhabits dry woodlands.
chunga
clough
clough
noun
(Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
(dialectal) A wood; weald.
(dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
(historical) Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”)
A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
cluing
cluing
verb
present participle of clue
coburg
coburg
Proper noun
An independent city in Bavaria, Germany.
Noun
A thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk.
A kind of bread roll.
coigue
coigue
noun
Dombey's beech
colugo
colugo
noun
An arboreal gliding mammal of the family Cynocephalidae native to South-east Asia.
congou
congou
noun
(dated) A kind of Chinese black tea.
cougar
cougar
noun
(Canada, US, slang) An older woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men, by implication a female “sexual predator”.
Puma concolor, a wild feline native to the Americas.
coughs
coughs
noun
plural of cough
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cough
courge
cruger
cubage
cubage
noun
A cubic measurement.
cubing
cubing
noun
The activity of solving the Rubik's cube.
verb
present participle of cube
cudgel
cudgel
noun
(figurative) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another.
A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon.
verb
To exercise (one's wits or brains).
To strike with a cudgel.
cueing
cueing
verb
present participle of cue
culgee
curage
curagh
curing
curing
noun
The act by which something is cured.
verb
present participle of cure
cushag
cushag
noun
(chiefly Isle of Man) The ragwort, the national flower of the Isle of Man, which has a large stalk.
cuvage
cygnus
eggcup
eggcup
noun
(Britain) A small dish used to support a boiled egg while it is eaten.
eucgia
fugacy
fugacy
noun
(obsolete) banishment
fungic
fungic
adj
(chemistry) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms.
gajcur
gauche
gauche
adj
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
gaucho
gaucho
noun
(finance, historical) A proposed currency intended to be used by Argentina and Brazil to make interregional payments.
A cowboy of the South American pampas.
gaucie
gaulic
gaunch
gaunch
verb
Alternative form of ganch (“to impale”)
gauric
glauce
glucic
glucic
adj
(dated, organic chemistry) Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar
glucid
glucke
glunch
glutch
glutch
noun
(Britain, dialect) A mouthful.
verb
(Britain, dialect) To swallow.
grouch
grouch
noun
A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
One who is grumpy or irritable.
verb
(intransitive) To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
grunch
grutch
grutch
verb
(intransitive) To murmur, complain.
(obsolete) To grudge.
guacho
guacho
noun
A medicinal substance found in the leaves of this plant.
A tropical American composite climbing plant.
Misspelling of gaucho.
guacin
guacos
guacos
noun
plural of guaco
guaiac
guaiac
noun
(medicine) A paper treated with alpha-guaiaconic acid, used in tests to detect blood in the faeces.
gucked
gulick
gummic
gutnic
guzmco
gweduc
hughoc
mcgurn
mchugh
mucago
scunge
scunge
noun
(countable, slang) A dirty or untidy person; one who takes no pride in their appearance.
(countable, slang) A scrounger; one who habitually borrows.
(countable, slang, derogatory) A scoundrel; a worthless or despicable person.
(uncountable, slang) Muck, scum, dirt, dirtiness; also used attributively.
verb
To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.
To scrounge; to borrow.
To slink about; to sneak, to insinuate.
scungy
scungy
adj
(Australia, New Zealand, US, informal) Dirty, messy; sordid.
uncage
uncage
verb
(by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints.