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adj
noun
adj
- (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
- (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
- Rowdy or rough.
- (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
- (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
- (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- Strict, not lenient.
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- physically toughened
- substantially made or constructed
intj
noun
verb
verb
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
noun
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
verb
noun
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
noun
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- talk incessantly and tiresomely
- censure severely or angrily
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
- (Scotland, transitive, of water) To splash; to surge.
- (Scotland, transitive) To pour or throw out.
- (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
- (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
- (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
noun
- the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
- A notch or opening.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.
- (figuratively, especially in the plural) Anything resembling the jaw (sense 1) of an animal in form or action; the mouth or way of entrance.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A wave, a billow, a breaker.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- (slang) An axle guard.
- (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
noun
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- chew noisily or vigorously
- chafe at the bit, like horses
- To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.
- (ambitransitive) To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
- (informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]
- (heraldry) To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). [with with]
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
noun
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
adv
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
- (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
- (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
- To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
noun
- the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
- (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
- (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
- (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
verb
noun
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
noun
noun
- a large bite
- (countable, BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
- (uncountable, slang) Food.
- (countable, colloquial) A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
- (countable, colloquial) An act of eating.
- (New York drill music, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
verb
noun
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
noun
- The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.
- (figuratively) Deep thought or consideration.
- (psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
- (pathology) An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach.
- a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- (of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
- regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
noun
verb
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
noun
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
noun
verb
verb
noun
noun
noun
- a large bite
- (countable, BDSM) A casual meeting for those interested in BDSM, usually at a restaurant, bar or pub.
- (uncountable, slang) Food.
- (countable, colloquial) A location or restaurant where good food can be expected, or an instance of eating at such a place.
- (countable, colloquial) An act of eating.
- (New York drill music, slang, derogatory) Someone who easily agrees to give oral sex.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
noun
- The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.
- (figuratively) Deep thought or consideration.
- (psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
- (pathology) An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach.
- a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- (of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
- regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
verb
noun
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
verb
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
noun
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
verb
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
noun
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
verb
noun
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
noun
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- talk incessantly and tiresomely
- censure severely or angrily
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
- (Scotland, transitive, of water) To splash; to surge.
- (Scotland, transitive) To pour or throw out.
- (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
- (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
- (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
noun
- the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
- (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
- A notch or opening.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A dash or spurt of water; any large quantity of water or other liquid.
- (figuratively, especially in the plural) Anything resembling the jaw (sense 1) of an animal in form or action; the mouth or way of entrance.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A wave, a billow, a breaker.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- (slang) An axle guard.
- (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
verb
noun
verb
- chew noisily or vigorously
- chafe at the bit, like horses
- To camp overnight in a historic church as a novelty or part of a holiday.
- (ambitransitive) To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently.
- (informal) To act or behave like a champ; to endure. [with it or up]
- (heraldry) To set (a surface) with a champ (a contrasting field or background). [with with]
noun
verb
noun
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- (transitive) To swallow food without chewing it.
- make or roll into bolts
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- secure or lock with a bolt
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- move or jump suddenly
- swallow hastily
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- (intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate away suddenly.
- (transitive, figurative) To affix in a crude or unnatural manner.
- (transitive) To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- (intransitive) To escape.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- (transitive) To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- (transitive) To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
noun
- a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
- a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
- the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
- the act of moving with great haste
- (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- (military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt. (See thunderbolt.)
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
adv
verb
- eat hastily without proper chewing
- make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
- (ambitransitive) Of a turkey, to make its characteristic vocalisation; also, used of certain other birds.
- (ambitransitive) To make the sound of a turkey.
- To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up)
noun
- the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
- (Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The sound of a turkey; or, a similar vocalisation of another bird.
- (rare) An act of eating hastily or greedily.
- (golf) A rapid straight putt so strongly played that, if the ball had not gone into the hole, it would have gone a long way past.
verb
noun
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
adj
noun
adj
- (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
- (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
- (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
- Rowdy or rough.
- (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
- (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
- (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
- Strict, not lenient.
- violent and lawless
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- physically toughened
- substantially made or constructed