thorn in someone's side
bone in the throat
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blister
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bum
cock
come
plague
God Almighty
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bug up one's ass
fret
hrmph
shite
knickers
dratted
tits
gah
aggravation
bother
fug
well
pff
exasperation
botherment
ahem
fuckshit
poop
seeing red
miff
huff
beleaguer
unpleasurable
irked
annoying
badger
pester
shitty
tease
bug
off-putting
damnation
wouldn't you know it
good grief
pestilential
wah lau
wirra
misprizal
broken record
for goodness' sakes
for goodness' sake
pinprick
irritant
dismayingly
suffering succotash
thorn
Jesus wept
sheesh
tut-tut
peeve
tchah
donder and blitzen
for the love of God
irritational
puh-lease
please
bugger
ticked
raise eyebrows
for the love of fuck
pht
dismayer
grievance
irritation
pathetic
flip
curses
pesteringly
pissing
posh
get off
bugbear
unhingingly
shame on you
there you go
shagging
brother
dissatisfyingly
tush
appalling
indignantly
funny
irksome
not even
tut tut
tsk tsk
mischief
dismaying
dratted
unpleasurable
irked
shitty
off-putting
pestilential
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ticked
pathetic
pissing
shagging
appalling
funny
irksome
dismaying
annoying
annoyedly
dismayingly
puh-lease
please
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unhingingly
dissatisfyingly
indignantly
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bone in the throat
blister
plague
bug up one's ass
aggravation
exasperation
botherment
fuckshit
seeing red
miff
huff
annoying
misprizal
broken record
pinprick
irritant
thorn
peeve
dismayer
grievance
irritation
bugbear
tut tut
tsk tsk
mischief
fret
fug
beleaguer
badger
pester
tease
bug
raise eyebrows
get off
miff
noun
- A cause of annoyance.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
- An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
- A swelling on a plant.
- Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
verb
intj
verb
- To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
- To depress; to make unhappy.
noun
- The anus.
- A drinking spree.
- A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- The buttocks.
- A homeless person, usually a man.
- A player or racer who often performs poorly.
adj
intj
noun
- The penis.
- The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- Vulva, vagina.
- Shuttlecock.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A cock pigeon.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
verb
- To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- To erect; to turn up.
- To form into piles.
intj
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
prep
verb
- To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To become butter by being churned.
- Happen.
- To have a certain social background.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To move towards the listener.
- To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To move towards an unstated agent.
- To move towards the speaker.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To germinate.
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- To arrive.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
noun
noun
- an annoyance
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
verb
adv
verb
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- be agitated or irritated
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- carve a pattern into
- decorate with an interlaced design
- be too tight; rub or press
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- wear away or erode
noun
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
noun
- Provocation, irritation, annoyance.
- An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
- The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
- Exaggerated representation.
intj
- An exclamation of indignance.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
adj
noun
adj
verb
verb
- annoy persistently
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
- tear into pieces
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- separate the fibers of
- mock or make fun of playfully
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
noun
verb
noun
- general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
- a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
- insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
adj
- Causing irritation or annoyance.
- Caused by pestilence.
- Spreading in the manner of pestilence.
- During which pestilence spreads.
- Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection.
- Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
noun
intj
verb
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To feel contempt for some person or thing.
- To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
- To be fatigued.
- To be surprised.
- To break or ruin.
noun
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
noun
noun
- The state of being irritated
- A things 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
- a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage.
intj
verb
- To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
- To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
- To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
- To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
- To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.
- To throw so as to turn over.
- To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
- To hand over or pass along.
- To go berserk or crazy.
- To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
- To switch to another task, etc.
noun
- The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
- A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
- A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
- The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
- A slingshot.
- A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
- A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").
adj
verb
- Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- To make (someone) fall asleep.
- To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- To acquire (something) from (someone).
- To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
- To kiss; to smooch.
- To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
- To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
- To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- To get high (on a drug).
- To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- To fall asleep.
- To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
phrase
- Expressing exasperation.
- You have done it, or are doing it, correctly.
- Used to explain or justify one's course of action.
- Expressing that the conclusion is the same as it was suggested before; the other party's statement actually implies the same thing as one's own idea.
- Used while giving someone something.
intj
verb
noun
- A form of address to a man.
- Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
- A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- Son of the same parents as another person.
- A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).
- Somebody, usually male, connected by a common cause, situation, or affection.
- A black male.
- Someone who is a kinsman or shares the same patriarch.
noun
- Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
- Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.
- A playfully annoying action.
- A group or a pack of rats.
- A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
- The Devil; used as an expletive.
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