Parole in English per 'Improper usage (especially of words).'
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noun
- A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
- (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
- (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
- strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as ‘blatant’ to mean ‘flagrant’) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: ‘blind mouths’)
noun
- An incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname.
- (law) A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
- A term which is misleading, even if firmly established, technically correct, or both.
- (nonstandard, proscribed) Something which is asserted not to be true; a mistaken belief, a falsehood, a myth.
- an incorrect or unsuitable name
verb
noun
- Other misconstrual or misinterpretation not necessarily hinging on missense of any particular word.
- A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
- (grammar, linguistics) An ungrammatical phrase; a misformed word.
- (uncommon) The act of misbuilding; an instance of it.
- a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
- an ungrammatical constituent
name
adj
- (US) Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).
- (politics) Favouring a liberal free-market economy.
- Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
- Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
- of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language
noun
- (US, Mexican-American) A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.
- A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
- (US) A person of English ethnic descent.
- a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman Conquest
- English prior to about 1100
- a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestant’
adv
adj
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
noun
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
verb
adj
- (of words) Having the intended meaning altered or misrepresented; misunderstood.
- Consisting of two or more threads, strands or the like intertwined; formed by twisting or twining.
- (of a person, also with up) Mentally or emotionally distorted or unsound; perverted.
- (of the stem of a wine glass) Having a spiral ornament inside.
- (originally Colorado) Under heavy influence of intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana; very intoxicated.
- (of facial expressions) Distorted or contorted by tensing the facial muscles.
- having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
verb
adj
adv
prep_phrase
verb
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
- (used only in imperative, vulgar) Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- (transitive, vulgar) To botch or make a mess of.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) Synonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or completely”)
- (vulgar) To cause someone to become intoxicated or otherwise alter someone's mental state.
- (vulgar) To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
- (transitive, vulgar) To injure or damage badly.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
intj
noun
verb
- (idiomatic, slang, mildly vulgar) To go wrong; to foul up; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.
- (idiomatic, slang) To lie, mislead or give someone bullshit; to tell someone what they want to hear.
- become or cause to become obstructed
intj
verb
noun
adj
- (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- Having a foul or unpleasant smell.
- (slang, UK, US) Cool; great; excellent.
- (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
- (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
- in a state of cowardly fright
- offensively malodorous
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way
adj
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- (slang) Amazing.
- To the point of stupor.
- (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
- lacking intelligence
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
adv
noun
prefix
- (no longer productive) Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
- (rare) Outside, out.
- (no longer productive) Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
- (no longer productive) Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.
- (no longer productive) Intensively
- (no longer productive) Very: intensifying adjectives.
- Alternative form of fore-.
- (no longer productive) Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
- (no longer productive) Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
- (no longer productive) Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
- (no longer productive) Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
- (no longer productive) Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.
- (no longer productive) Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
noun
- A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
- (often, especially) Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
- (rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of a figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
- strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as ‘blatant’ to mean ‘flagrant’) or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: ‘blind mouths’)
noun
- An incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname.
- (law) A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
- A term which is misleading, even if firmly established, technically correct, or both.
- (nonstandard, proscribed) Something which is asserted not to be true; a mistaken belief, a falsehood, a myth.
- an incorrect or unsuitable name
verb
noun
- Other misconstrual or misinterpretation not necessarily hinging on missense of any particular word.
- A misunderstanding or misinterpretation resulting from a different meaning than intended of a word that has multiple meanings.
- (grammar, linguistics) An ungrammatical phrase; a misformed word.
- (uncommon) The act of misbuilding; an instance of it.
- a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
- an ungrammatical constituent
verb
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To make a mistake, to go wrong.
- (used only in imperative, vulgar) Ellipsis of shut the fuck up.
- (transitive, vulgar) To botch or make a mess of.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) Synonym of destroy (“to eat food quickly, hungrily or completely”)
- (vulgar) To cause someone to become intoxicated or otherwise alter someone's mental state.
- (vulgar) To traumatise; to negatively affect the wellbeing of someone.
- (transitive, vulgar) To injure or damage badly.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
intj
noun
verb
- (idiomatic, slang, mildly vulgar) To go wrong; to foul up; to make a mistake.
- (transitive, slang, idiomatic, mildly vulgar) To ruin, botch, bungle; to make a mess of.
- (idiomatic, slang) To lie, mislead or give someone bullshit; to tell someone what they want to hear.
- become or cause to become obstructed
adv
adj
- Immoral, not good, bad.
- Designed to be worn or placed inward
- Not working; out of order.
- Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- Incorrect or untrue.
- Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- Twisted; wry.
- not in accord with established usage or procedure
- badly timed
- contrary to conscience or morality or law
- not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth
- used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
- not functioning properly
- based on or acting or judging in error
- characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
noun
- The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- Something that is immoral or not good.
- An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
- any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
- that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
verb
adj
- (of words) Having the intended meaning altered or misrepresented; misunderstood.
- Consisting of two or more threads, strands or the like intertwined; formed by twisting or twining.
- (of a person, also with up) Mentally or emotionally distorted or unsound; perverted.
- (of the stem of a wine glass) Having a spiral ornament inside.
- (originally Colorado) Under heavy influence of intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana; very intoxicated.
- (of facial expressions) Distorted or contorted by tensing the facial muscles.
- having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
verb
adj
adv
prep_phrase
adj
- (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- Having a foul or unpleasant smell.
- (slang, UK, US) Cool; great; excellent.
- (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
- (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
- in a state of cowardly fright
- offensively malodorous
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way
adj
- Unpleasant; annoying to the speaker. This sense can be used alongside obscene words.
- (euphemistic, by association) Usually replaces an obscene or profane word, and thus is audibly stressed as such.
- (slang) Amazing.
- To the point of stupor.
- (of animates) Lacking in intelligence.
- Exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Dulled in feeling or sensation; torpid.
- lacking intelligence
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity