(originally US) A person hired to carry out errands or (often) menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand boy or errand girl, a runner.
(originally US, journalism) A reporter who frequently travels to conduct research, interview witnesses, etc., and then conveys the information to a rewriteman who writes up the story.
legmen
legmen
noun
plural of legman
leming
leming
verb
present participle of leme
lignum
lignum
noun
A perennial shrub, Duma florulenta, native to semiarid areas of inland Australia.
Land covered by lignum.
liming
liming
noun
An application of lime (calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide).
verb
(Caribbean, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, slang) hanging around, usually in a public place with friends, enjoying the scene.
present participle of lime
lingam
lingam
noun
(Shaivism) The aniconic phallic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva.
(rare and/or euphemistic) The penis.
logman
logman
noun
A man employed to carry logs.
malang
malign
malign
adj
(oncology) Malignant.
Evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
Malevolent.
verb
(transitive) To make defamatory statements about; to slander or traduce.
(transitive, archaic) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong.
mangal
mangal
noun
A Middle Eastern-style barbecue (cookout), or the barbecue (grill; cooking apparatus) it is cooked on.
A mangrove swamp or ecosystem.
mangel
mangel
noun
A mangelwurzel, a plant of the beet family raised as cattle feed.
The sugar beet, which can be refined to equal cane sugar in all manners save for botanical origin.
mangle
mangle
noun
A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
A mangrove (tree).
The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
verb
(transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
(transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
(transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
meleng
mingle
mingle
noun
(obsolete) A mixture.
The act of informally meeting numerous people in a group
verb
(intransitive) To socialize with different people at a social event.
(transitive) To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship
(transitive) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
(transitive) To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product
(transitive) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
(transitive, obsolete) To put together; to join.
to cause or allow to intermarry
to intermarry.
mlange
moling
mongol
mongol
noun
(dated, offensive) Alternative letter-case form of Mongol (“person with Down's syndrome”).