(colloquial, rare) Expressing disgust or discontent; blah.
When repeated or combined with blah, used to denote tedious talking; blah.
buhl
buhl
noun
(woodworking) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.
duhl
haul
haul
noun
(Britain, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
(ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
verb
(intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
(intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
(transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
(transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
(transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
(transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
(transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
hula
hula
noun
A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
verb
(intransitive) To dance the hula.
hulk
hulk
noun
(archaic) A large ship used for transportation; (more generally) a large ship that is difficult to manoeuvre.
(bodybuilding) An excessively muscled person.
(by extension) A non-functional but floating ship, usually stripped of equipment and rigging, and often put to other uses such as accommodation or storage.
(figuratively) A big (and possibly clumsy) person.
(figuratively) A large structure with a dominating presence.
verb
(intransitive) Of a (large) person: to act or move slowly and clumsily.
(intransitive) To be a hulk, that is, a large, hulking, and often imposing presence.
(transitive) To move (a large, hulking body).
(transitive, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) To remove the entrails of; to disembowel.
To reduce (a ship) to a non-functional hulk.
To temporarily house (goods, people, etc.) in such a hulk.
hull
hull
noun
(mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
Any covering.
The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive, nautical) To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled.
(transitive) To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc.
To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
hulu
huly
hurl
hurl
noun
(Ulster, Scotland, slang, countable) A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc.
(countable) A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling.
(hurling, countable) The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley.
(obsolete) Tumult; riot; hurly-burly.
(obsolete, countable) A table on which fibre is stirred and mixed by beating with a bow spring.
(slang) The act of vomiting.
(slang, uncountable) Vomit.
verb
(Scotland, transitive, obsolete) To convey in a wheeled vehicle.
(intransitive) To participate in the sport of hurling.
(intransitive, slang) To vomit.
(obsolete) To move rapidly with a noise; to whirl.
(obsolete, transitive) To twist or turn.
(transitive) To throw (something) with force.
(transitive) To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target.