English words for 'Alternative form of fooster.'
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noun
- Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”).
- (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
- A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
- A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
- (advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
- (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- (formal) a person who announces important news
verb
noun
- A variety of domestic goose.
- A raccoon oyster.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- (UK) A great black-backed gull.
- A harp seal.
- A larva of the bombycid moth.
- (geology) An anticline.
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- (New Zealand) A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A toadstone.
- (rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- (cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
noun
name
- A province of Marche, Italy.
- A locality in Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada.
- A port city and comune, the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region of Marche, Italy.
- A small town in the Shire of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, named after Ancona, Italy.
- An unincorporated community in Reading Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States, named after Ancona, Italy.
noun
- A breed of poultry.
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- a member of the military police in Britain
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
noun
verb
- (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
- (Australian slang) To laugh.
- (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
- To cheat.
- (US, slang) To kill.
- (intransitive) To defecate.
- (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- (of a bird) To squawk.
noun
- the furcula of a domestic fowl
- (nautical) Any sailing vessel rigged with a wishbone.
- (American football) A particular kind of offensive formation. See wishbone formation.
- A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries.
- (nautical) A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew.
- (automotive) A suspension component similar in shape to a chicken wishbone.
verb
noun
- The barnacle goose.
- (electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
- (slang) A worldly sailor.
- (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
- European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
- marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
verb
noun
- Synonym of guinea fowl.
- (British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
- (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
- a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings
- a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
adj
noun
noun
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
verb
- throw eggs at
- coat with beaten egg
- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
noun
- flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- (strictly) A female goose.
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.
- (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
verb
- give a spurt of fuel to
- pinch in the buttocks
- prod into action
- (transitive, slang) To stimulate; to spur.
- (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
- (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
- (slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).
noun
- Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”).
- (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
- A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
- A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
- (advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
- (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- (formal) a person who announces important news
verb
noun
- A variety of domestic goose.
- A raccoon oyster.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
- (architecture) A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- (UK) A great black-backed gull.
- A harp seal.
- A larva of the bombycid moth.
- (geology) An anticline.
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- (New Zealand) A passerine bird of the genus Philesturnus.
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
adj
adv
verb
noun
- (cooking) A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A toadstone.
- (rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- (cooking) A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
noun
name
- A province of Marche, Italy.
- A locality in Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada.
- A port city and comune, the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region of Marche, Italy.
- A small town in the Shire of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, named after Ancona, Italy.
- An unincorporated community in Reading Township, Livingston County, Illinois, United States, named after Ancona, Italy.
noun
- A breed of poultry.
- (British, folklore) A type of evil goblin or imp.
- (US, rail transport) A porter in a US railway station.
- (British) A member of the Royal Military Police a unit in the British army.
- a member of the military police in Britain
- a porter who helps passengers with their baggage at a railroad station
noun
verb
- (transitive) To defecate (on); to shit.
- (Australian slang) To laugh.
- (transitive) To excrete (something) by defecation.
- To cheat.
- (US, slang) To kill.
- (intransitive) To defecate.
- (brass instrument technique) To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
- (of a bird) To squawk.
noun
- the furcula of a domestic fowl
- (nautical) Any sailing vessel rigged with a wishbone.
- (American football) A particular kind of offensive formation. See wishbone formation.
- A forked bone between the neck and breast of a bird consisting chiefly of the two clavicles fused at their median or lower end, regarded as a lucky charm in some countries.
- (nautical) A spar in two parts, between which a sail is hoisted, the wishbone extending its clew.
- (automotive) A suspension component similar in shape to a chicken wishbone.
verb
noun
- The barnacle goose.
- (electronics, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
- (slang) A worldly sailor.
- (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
- A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
- (software engineering, slang) A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
- European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north
- marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
verb
noun
- Synonym of guinea fowl.
- (British, historical) A gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
- (US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
- a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings
- a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
noun
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning.
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
verb
- throw eggs at
- coat with beaten egg
- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
noun
- flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)
- The flesh of the goose used as food.
- web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks
- a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- (uncountable, historical) An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.
- (strictly) A female goose.
- Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.
- (slang, plural geese or gooses) A silly person.
verb
- give a spurt of fuel to
- pinch in the buttocks
- prod into action
- (transitive, slang) To stimulate; to spur.
- (transitive, slang) To sharply poke or pinch the buttocks, or prod between the buttocks, of (a person).
- (transitive, slang) To hiss (a performer) off the stage.
- (slang, UK) Of private-hire taxi drivers, to pick up a passenger who has not booked a cab, in violation of UK licensing conditions.
- (transitive, slang) To gently accelerate (a vehicle); to give repeated, small taps on the accelerator of (a vehicle); to feather the throttle of (a vehicle).