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verb
adj
- Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
- Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
- Destroying or undermining something gradually.
- spitefully sarcastic
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
noun
adj
verb
adj
- having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
- influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion
- Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
- Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
verb
adj
verb
verb
- disturb (someone's) composure
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
- lacerate by biting
- be on the mind of
- be concerned with
- touch or rub constantly
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
verb
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
noun
- The state of being irritated.
- A thing or person that annoys.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The act of irritating or annoying.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- a sudden outburst of anger
verb
- be agitated
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
noun
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- An instance of boiling.
verb
- be agitated
- stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
- (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
- (business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
- (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
verb
noun
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
- be agitated
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- (intransitive) To romp or tumble.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
- (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
noun
- A fit of sulking or sullenness.
- One's facial expression when pouting.
- (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- Alternative form of poult.
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- a disdainful grimace
- catfish common in eastern United States
verb
- (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
- (transitive) To say while pouting.
- (Scotland) To shoot poults.
- (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
adj
- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
- causing irritation or annoyance
verb
adj
noun
- An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- (Ireland, Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- Abbreviation of petition.
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects (pet rock, pet plant, etc.).
- a special loved one
- a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
- a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
noun
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
adj
verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- a strange attitude or habit
- a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- a small tool or hooklike implement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
- (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- (military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- A forked support; a crotch.
- (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- (printing) A square bracket.
noun
- a strange attitude or habit
- a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
- (uncountable, possibly offensive) Homosexuality.
- (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
noun
- a strange attitude or habit
- a narrow groove beside a beading
- An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
- (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
verb
verb
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; to exercise.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly; to fiddle with.
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy
- lacerate by biting
- be on the mind of
- be concerned with
- touch or rub constantly
- disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress
noun
- The state of being irritated.
- A thing or person that annoys.
- A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.
- The act of irritating or annoying.
- (physiology) A state of inflammation or of painful reaction to cell or tissue damage.
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- a sudden outburst of anger
noun
- A fit of sulking or sullenness.
- One's facial expression when pouting.
- (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- Alternative form of poult.
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- a disdainful grimace
- catfish common in eastern United States
verb
- (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
- (transitive) To say while pouting.
- (Scotland) To shoot poults.
- (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
noun
- frivolous or trifling behavior
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- a contest with rules to determine a winner
- the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game
- animal hunted for food or sport
- (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves
- an amusement or pastime
- (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win
- your occupation or line of work
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- (hip-hop, with the) The music industry.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
- (countable, usually in the singular, informal) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
adj
verb
- place a bet on
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
noun
- a strange attitude or habit
- a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
- a small tool or hooklike implement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- (surgery, now chiefly historical) A hook-shaped instrument, especially as used in obstetric surgery.
- (military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
- (military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
- A forked support; a crotch.
- (music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
- (printing) A square bracket.
noun
- a strange attitude or habit
- a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer or odd.
- (uncountable) The quality of being queer, in the sense of not conforming to sexual or gender norms.
- (uncountable, possibly offensive) Homosexuality.
- (countable) Something queer; an oddity.
noun
- a strange attitude or habit
- a narrow groove beside a beading
- An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about the manner or style of something or someone.
- (architecture) An acute angle dividing a molding; a groove that runs lengthwise between the upper part of a molding and a soffit.
verb
verb
verb
- disturb (someone's) composure
- move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
noun
verb
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
verb
- be agitated
- bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes
- come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
- be in an agitated emotional state
- (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
- (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
- (ambitransitive) To cook in boiling water.
- To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
- (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
noun
- the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
- A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
- (US) A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
- An instance of boiling.
verb
- be agitated
- stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
- (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
- (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
- (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
- (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
- (business, of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
- (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
noun
- a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
- (business, uncountable) Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
- (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
- A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
- (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- (historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
- Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
- A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
verb
noun
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
- be agitated
- make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
- (intransitive) To romp or tumble.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (transitive, of a person or group of people) To annoy; to make angry; to throw into discord.
- (transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
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- An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use.
- A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
- (Ireland, Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
- Abbreviation of petition.
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects (pet rock, pet plant, etc.).
- a special loved one
- a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
- a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement
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- Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
- Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
- Destroying or undermining something gradually.
- spitefully sarcastic
- of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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- having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
- influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion
- Intensely preoccupied with or by a given topic or emotion; driven by a specified obsession.
- Influenced or controlled by evil spirits, but less than possessed in that the spirits do not actually reside in the victim.
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- Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
- (law, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
- (law, of a party or entity) In the habit of starting vexatious litigation and therefore liable to have restraints placed on one's ability to access the courts.
- causing irritation or annoyance