n
(idiomatic, by extension) A day when things seem to be unmanageable or go wrong.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To bewitch; deceive; hoodwink.
n
(rare) A proverb or parable.
v
(transitive) To botch or bungle.
v
(intransitive, slang) To blunder; to screw up.
v
To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
adj
Characterised or marked by bumbling
v
(intransitive) To act or work incompetently; to fumble.
v
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
adv
(chiefly Scotland) Obsolete spelling of confusedly [In a confused manner.]
v
(intransitive, dated, fandom slang) To be shocked or stunned in this fashion.
v
(intransitive) To become pettish; sulk.
adj
(of a person or other animal, or of clothing) Slatternly, untidy, unkempt.
v
To use up or to be used up.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To be confused.
v
(intransitive, rare, UK dialectal, Scotland) To be or become jealous.
v
(transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
v
(intransitive) to mess or muck (about, around etc.)
v
(computing, Linux, Gnu C) To transform and obscure in a trivial fashion with memfrob(3), a frobnication function. A contraction of memfrob(3).
v
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
v
(intransitive) To feast in a noisy and riotous manner.
adj
Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.
adj
With the most important parts destroyed (often by fire), removed or rendered useless.
adj
Characterised or marked by hobbling
n
(informal, chiefly US) A situation or object in a state of extreme disarray.
v
(England) To shrug up the neck and creep along the streets with a shivering sensation of cold, as an ill-clad person may do on a winter's morning.
n
Obsolete form of jumble (“kind of sugared cake”). [A mixture of often unrelated things.]
n
Obsolete form of jumble (“kind of sugared cake”). [A mixture of often unrelated things.]
n
(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
n
One who jumbles, muddles, or confuses.
n
(Scotland, obsolete) Confusion, disorder.
n
(obsolete) A confused heap; a throng or jumble, as of people or sounds.
n
A big fuss or messy situation.
v
Alternative form of malagruze [(Scotland, now rare) To cause havoc to; to disarrange, put into disarray.]
n
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
v
(transitive) To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
n
(informal) One who messes things up.
v
(transitive) To spoil by rough or careless handling; handle roughly; rumple; crumple; maul; mangle or disfigure; mar; spoil; bungle.
v
(transitive, Northern England, especially Manchester) To pester or irritate someone. Usually directed at children.
v
(intransitive, UK, dialect, dated) To do something clumsily.
v
(informal) To join in with work.
n
A person or thing that muddles.
v
(intransitive, Britain, dialectal) Often followed by along: to live or work in an unorganized and unplanned way; to muddle along.
n
(slang, archaic) A mess of something; a mistake.
n
(film) An American independent film movement of the early twenty-first century, characterised by low-budget production, focus on personal relationships between twentysomethings, improvised scripts, and non-professional actors.
n
A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder)
v
To talk indistinctly; to mutter
adj
Having been mussed: messy, rumpled.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To make a mess of something; to botch.
n
Alternative form of owie [(colloquial, Canada, US, childish) A painful but minor injury.]
adj
Characteristic or marked by peddling
v
To do work in a slovenly way.
v
(Tyneside) To throw a fit of rage.
n
The act of one who rags or teases.
v
To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
n
Wild partying, typically a drinking binge
n
Obsolete form of rampage. [A course of violent, frenzied action.]
v
(Scotland and Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To be evidently associated with something unpleasant.
n
(obsolete) A rabble; a riotous assembly; a mob.
n
A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
adj
(Northern Ireland, slang) Fed up; not content, not satisfied.
adj
(UK, US, colloquial, dated) Shaky, rickety, ramshackle.
v
(figuratively) To severely mock or discredit.
v
(transitive, informal) To put together hastily; to assemble carelessly and improvisationally.
n
A quantity of worthless things; mess.
n
A mixture of unrelated things, a jumble or hodgepodge.
v
(obsolete or dialect) To check; to reprimand.
v
(UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To submit tamely to others.
v
Alternative spelling of spaz [(slang, derogatory, offensive) To have a tantrum or fit.]
v
(transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (money etc.).
adj
(UK, obsolete, dialect) unsteady; dizzy; tottery
adj
(slang) Crestfallen; dejected.
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