v
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To become tangled or matted.
v
(archaic, dialectal) To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.
n
(figuratively) An intellectual or philosophical issue abounding with seemingly unresolvable problems; a theoretical quandary or impasse.
n
Someone or something that bristles.
adj
(Scotland, slang, of weather) Extremely cold.
adj
(obsolete) Broken in the back.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
v
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
n
A bend, twist or crinkle.
v
(intransitive) To haunt or enter by crannies.
v
(archaic) to crumple, crimp
v
(transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
v
(transitive, dated) To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair).
n
(archaic) A slight twitch of a muscle.
v
To roughen on the surface.
v
(transitive) To mix (ingredients such as flour and butter) in such a way as to form crumbs.
v
(intransitive, US, medical slang) (of one's health) to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash).
v
(transitive) To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
n
Someone or something that crumples.
v
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
adj
(Scotland) Marked by din; noisy.
n
A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
n
A stray hair that is difficult to style.
v
To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
v
(transitive) To fray or wear down, especially at the edges.
v
(intransitive) To become wrinkled.
n
(informal) frilly clothing
n
A row or rows of frills.
n
(historical) A pad of frizzed hair or silk formerly worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
v
To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To curl or crisp, as hair; to frizz; to crinkle.
n
(onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
n
Alternative spelling of frou-frou [(onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.]
v
(rare) To crease, wrinkle, to frown.
v
(transitive) To cause to be scruffy or untidy; to rumple or tangle.
v
Alternative form of frowse [(transitive) To cause to be scruffy or untidy; to rumple or tangle.]
n
Alternative spelling of frou-frou [(onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.]
v
(transitive) To wrinkle; crumple; ruffle; disorder.
n
(chiefly UK) A cursory examination of the contents or details of something.
v
(Scotland) To grope with the hands, as in the dark.
adj
(UK, dialect) Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.
v
(transitive) To grind between the teeth.
n
A spiral-shaped graphic used to indicate swearing in comic strips.
v
(transitive) To add greebles to a surface.
v
(dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To feel around, as in the dark; grope.
v
(intransitive) To take pleasure in mundane activities.
v
(obsolete or dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To feel or grope in the dark.
adj
(Scotland, usually followed by with) Infested; swarming; teeming.
v
(obsolete, rare) To wrinkle.
n
(informal) A jiffy; a moment; a short time.
v
(intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
n
The act of one who mopes.
v
(transitive, dated) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
adj
(informal) Suitable for plopping into; soft and comfortable.
n
(obsolete) A ruff for the neck.
v
(intransitive) To become tattered.
v
(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
v
(US, dialect, transitive) To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface.
adv
So as to rub; with a rubbing action or motion.
v
(transitive) To sift together; to mix, as through a sieve.
n
A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
adj
(card games) Able to be ruffed.
v
To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
v
(transitive) To disturb the smoothness of.
adj
(rare) Able to be ruffled.
n
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Woods, hedges or bushes.
v
(transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
v
(intransitive) To wrinkle or crease.
n
(nautical slang, dated) A noisy disturbance or commotion.
adj
Suffering from chafing by a saddle (due to excessive riding).
n
(obsolete) A cancerous tumour which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
v
(transitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To suffocate or stifle; to smother.
n
A small amount; a skosh.
n
Abbreviation of scruple (“unit of measure”). [Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience.]
adj
Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
n
(archaic, derogatory) An ungainly fellow.
v
(transitive) To make too small or short.
v
(Britain) To crumple, crush or wad (like a piece of paper).
n
The act of something being scrunched.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc.
n
(informal) A tiny amount; a little bit.
v
(Scotland) To talk impudently.
adj
Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
v
(intransitive) To fuss or bustle.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To scramble.
n
A flourish in handwriting.
v
(intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
adj
Producing or feeling tingles.
v
(transitive, archaic) To ruffle excessively, to the degree of causing something to lose its proper form or shape; ruffle up.
adj
Alternative spelling of tousled [Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.]
v
(intransitive, Scotland, archaic) To wriggle, twist or swerve about, like a fish swimming
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
v
(transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
n
A painful muscular spasm in the neck or back
v
(transitive) To make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles.
adj
(Scotland) gnarled, knotted; wizened, wrinkled.
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