English words for 'A minor fright.'
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- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
verb
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
adj
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- the act of vibrating
- case for holding arrows
- a shaky motion
- (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
- (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
verb
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
verb
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (figurative) A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
- A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
- (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
- A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- fill with sublime emotion
- cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
- (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
- (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
- A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
- A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.
- A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
- (masonry) An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.
- A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
verb
- cause a stinging or tingling sensation
- (transitive) To fasten with a tingle; to tack.
- (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
- (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (masonry, transitive) To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.
- (transitive) To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that requires it to be watertight.
- (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
noun
- (figurative) A major fright.
- (figurative) Death or failure.
- (cardiology, pathology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
- a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function
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noun
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (informal) A scare or fright.
- (informal) A ghost or phantom.
- A hobgoblin.
- (US, slang, medicine) A psychiatrist.
- (slang, gambling) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
- (espionage, slang) An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.
- (philosophy) A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
verb
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
- Easily frightened; timid.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
- (intransitive) To perform funk music.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
- (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
- (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- draw back, as with fear or pain
noun
- (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
- (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
- (countable) Mental depression.
- (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
- a state of nervous depression
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
noun
- A slight attack or touch.
- (sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- (baseball) From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- (nautical) An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
- Any of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- a short light gust of air
- a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
adj
intj
verb
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- (video games) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- (US, chiefly sports) Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- (fishing) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To smell; to sniff.
- (US, baseball) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- (by extension) To fail spectacularly.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
- utter with a puff of air
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
- smoke and exhale strongly
- drive or carry as if by a puff of air
adj
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
- using or containing too many words
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
noun
adj
- (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- annoying and unpleasant
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adj
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- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
verb
adj
- easily frightened
- cowardly or treacherous
- changed to a yellowish color by age
- affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
- typical of tabloids
- of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- Of a yellow hue.
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
- (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
noun
- yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
- (US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
- (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (sports) A yellow card.
verb
intj
adj
- in a state of cowardly fright
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
- offensively malodorous
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way
- 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) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
verb
- (transitive) To scare.
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- undergo necrosis
- hold within limits and control
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
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verb
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
- (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- To use evasion.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
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verb
adj
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
noun
noun
- A slight speck.
- A tap or light touch.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- a metallic tapping sound
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a light mattress
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
verb
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- sew
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adj
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verb
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
verb
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
adj
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- the act of vibrating
- case for holding arrows
- a shaky motion
- (weaponry) A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- (figuratively) A ready storage location for figurative tools or weapons.
- (mathematics) A multidigraph, especially in the context of representation theory.
verb
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- The act of shivering.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (Lincolnshire, Norfolk) A splinter of wood embedded in the flesh
- (collective) Collective noun for a group of sharks.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
verb
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (figurative) A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
- A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
- (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
- A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
verb
- tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
- fill with sublime emotion
- cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
- feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
- (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
- (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
noun
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
- A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
- A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.
- A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
- (masonry) An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.
- A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
verb
- cause a stinging or tingling sensation
- (transitive) To fasten with a tingle; to tack.
- (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
- (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (masonry, transitive) To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.
- (transitive) To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that requires it to be watertight.
- (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
noun
- (figurative) A major fright.
- (figurative) Death or failure.
- (cardiology, pathology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.
- a sudden severe instance of abnormal heart function
noun
verb
noun
- (countable) A slight trembling of the nerves.
- (uncountable, countable) The sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
- (countable, informal or British, regional) Chiefly in the form in a twitter: a state of excitement or nervousness; a twit.
- (uncountable, electronics) Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of the video format.
- (countable) A tremulous broken sound.
- a series of chirps
verb
- To have a slight trembling of the nerves; to be excited or agitated.
- To make the sound of a half-suppressed laugh; to titter; to giggle.
- (intransitive) To utter a succession of chirps.
- Alternative form of Twitter.
- (intransitive, transitive) (of a person) To talk in an excited or nervous manner.
- make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
noun
- (informal) A scare or fright.
- (informal) A ghost or phantom.
- A hobgoblin.
- (US, slang, medicine) A psychiatrist.
- (slang, gambling) A player who engages in hole carding by attempting to glimpse the dealer's hole card when the dealer checks under an ace or a 10 to see if a blackjack is present.
- (espionage, slang) An undercover agent, spy, or intelligence analyst.
- (philosophy) A metaphysical manifestation; an artificial distinction or construct.
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
verb
noun
- A slight attack or touch.
- (sports, chiefly US, slang) A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- (baseball) From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- (nautical) An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
- Any of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- a short light gust of air
- a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
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intj
verb
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- (video games) In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- (US, chiefly sports) Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- (fishing) To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To smell; to sniff.
- (US, baseball) Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- (by extension) To fail spectacularly.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
- utter with a puff of air
- perceive by inhaling through the nose
- smoke and exhale strongly
- drive or carry as if by a puff of air
noun
verb
noun
- A slight speck.
- A tap or light touch.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- a metallic tapping sound
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a light mattress
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
verb
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- sew
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
- Easily frightened; timid.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- (transitive) To frighten; to cause to flinch.
- (intransitive) To perform funk music.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fuck (the taboo swear word).
- (ambitransitive) To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear.
- (transitive) To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke.
- (intransitive) To emit an offensive smell; to stink.
- draw back, as with fear or pain
noun
- (uncountable, music) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.
- (countable) One who fears or panics; a coward.
- (countable) Mental depression.
- (countable) Foul or unpleasant smell, especially body odor.
- (uncountable) A state of fear or panic, especially cowardly.
- a state of nervous depression
- an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
verb
- (transitive) To scare.
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- undergo necrosis
- hold within limits and control
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
- (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- To use evasion.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
verb
- turn pale, as if in fear
- (intransitive, of the eye) To quail.
- (transitive) To deceive; cheat.
- (transitive) To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
- (intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside.
- (transitive) To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
- (intransitive) To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
noun
verb
adj
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
noun
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
- Easily frightened; timid.
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- lacking self-confidence
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
adj
- (slang) Nervous, frightened.
- Accompanied by wind.
- Long-winded; orally verbose.
- (informal) Flatulent.
- Empty and lacking substance.
- Unsheltered and open to the wind.
- (of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
- using or containing too many words
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
- abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
noun
adj
- (informal, uncommon) Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
- (informal) Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
- Moving by creeping along.
- (informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
- (informal, especially) Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
- causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin
- annoying and unpleasant
adj
verb
adj
noun
- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
verb
adj
- easily frightened
- cowardly or treacherous
- changed to a yellowish color by age
- affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
- typical of tabloids
- of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
- (informal) Lacking courage.
- Of a yellow hue.
- (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
- (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
- (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
noun
- yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Compare sulphur.
- (US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
- (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (sports) A yellow card.
verb
intj
adj
- in a state of cowardly fright
- (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues
- offensively malodorous
- stylish and modern in an unconventional way
- 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) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
- (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.