n
(obsolete) The act of butting like a ram; the use of a battering ram.
n
One who assails; an assailant.
n
One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
n
One who or that which blurs.
v
To blow in strong or sudden gusts.
v
(intransitive) To haggle or barter.
v
(transitive) to add cheese to; make cheesy or cheesier
n
A gag toy, used to play practical jokes, that traps the victim's fingers in both ends of a small cylinder woven from bamboo.
v
(transitive) To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.
n
(collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
v
(intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
n
A crooked back, or a person with such a back; a hunchback.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
n
One who delays or lingers.
n
(UK dialectal) A crowd or throng of people.
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Alternative form of imbroglio [A complicated situation; an entanglement.]
n
Obsolete form of stampede. [A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.]
v
(transitive, archaic) To paint, as the cheeks or face.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To make up in fardels; to bunch.
v
Alternative form of fewter [(transitive) To rest (a spear) in its fewter.]
v
(transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
n
Someone who is habitually a nuisance.
n
One who or that which galls.
n
One who gangles or is gangly.
n
A television viewer with a short attention span who switches between channels regularly.
n
One who hampers or hinders.
v
Obsolete form of halse. [(dialectal) To fall upon the neck of; hug; embrace.]
v
(obsolete) To conceal; to lurk in ambush.
n
(colloquial) One who has hunches, or makes intuitive guesses.
v
(intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
n
A petty contrivance; a toy.
n
One who "twists the knife", i.e. one who is cruel or who exacerbates a situation.
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Alternative form of knife twister [One who "twists the knife", i.e. one who is cruel or who exacerbates a situation.]
v
(UK, dialect, Yorkshire, colloquial) To play.
n
(informal) An attempt at something.
n
The act of one who lurks.
v
(obsolete, regional, transitive) To wrap up.
v
(UK, dialect, transitive) To assemble in a makeshift manner; to cobble together.
n
One who, or that which, mingles.
v
(transitive, geocaching) To deface, destroy, or remove a geocache.
n
One who or that which muzzles.
n
Alternative spelling of needle in a haystack [(idiomatic) something that is difficult or impossible to locate; something impossibly complex or intractable]
n
(by extension) A large number of people or things resembling an attack.
n
(idiomatic) A source of unforeseen trouble.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To behave with pertness.
n
A crooked stroke in writing; a scrawl.
n
(Britain, archaic, thieves' cant) A petty thief or pickpocket.
n
The act of one who prowls.
n
One who, or that which, puckers.
n
A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects.
v
(idiomatic, dated) To act in a pretentious or snobbish way.
n
(dated) A prank or practical joke.
n
One who, or that which, ravels.
v
(transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.
v
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
n
(archaic) A random collection or medley; a miscellany; also, a confused string of stories, words, etc.
n
One who riddles or sieves (grain, sand, etc.).
adj
Resembling or characteristic of ripping or tearing.
n
Something that is easy to enter, but is difficult or costly to leave.
n
The act of one who romps.
n
One who or that which sallies.
n
One who, or that which, scares.
n
One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility.
n
Person who shoves; a pusher.
n
One who shuns (a thing).
n
A stealthy or furtive gait or way of moving.
n
The act of one who sloganeers.
n
One who smatters; one who dabbles in or experiments with a little bit of everything, especially knowledge.
n
(rare) One who snaffles.
n
One who snares or entraps others.
v
(intransitive, transitive) To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively.
v
(obsolete) To lurk; to lie in ambush.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To lie snug or quiet.
n
The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).
n
(slang) horror and slasher films
n
One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
n
(dated) A bribe, fee, or extortionary price paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe or fee.
v
(rare, obsolete, transitive) To serve as a decoy, to lure.
n
(dialectal) Alternative form of stithy [An anvil.]
n
Alternative form of Sturm und Drang. [A proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music which occurred from the late 1760s to the early 1780s, emphasizing individual subjectivity and the free expression of emotions.]
n
(obsolete) One who stutters.
n
An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
n
(chiefly US) A difficult, abstract problem that worsens as one attempts to handle it; a "sticky" situation, especially one where attempts to make it better only make it worse.
n
One who tears or rends anything.
n
(computing theory) The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken whenever the event occurs, and then engage in a conflict over which process handles the event.
n
A type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.
n
One who or that which trills.
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Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.
n
One who wants, or who wants something
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