English words for 'Alternative form of mud crab.'
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noun
- (US, regional) A molting crab.
- (Australia and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
- (chiefly military slang) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
- (chiefly law enforcement slang) Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
- (gambling, slang) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.
- (chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
- a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
- a robust child
- a person who breaks horses
- an informal form of address for a man
- a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something
noun
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A horseshoe crab.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
noun
- The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
- The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
- Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
- Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
- A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
- Ellipsis of mustard gas.
- One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
- (baseball, colloquial) Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).
- any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica
- pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds
- leaves eaten as cooked greens
adj
noun
adj
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
noun
- A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
- A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
- A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
verb
adj
noun
prefix
noun
- An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.
- Something to be peeled.
- A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
- Someone who breaks horses.
- One who peels.
- (surfing) An ideal wave.
- Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
- An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.
- (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.
- A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.
- (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
- A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
- a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables
- a device for peeling vegetables or fruits
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
noun
noun
- large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)
- pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare
- A king crab (crustacean of subfamily Lithodinae).
- A mangrove stone crab (Myomenippe hardwickii, family Menippidae.
- A hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta, family Lomisidae)
- A Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria, family Menippidae.
noun
noun
- (rare, now Cornwall) A crab.
- A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
- A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
- An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
- A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
- A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
- An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
- Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
- (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
- a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
- an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
verb
- (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
- (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
- (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
- become infected with a canker
- infect with a canker
noun
- (US, regional) A molting crab.
- (Australia and New Zealand) A heavy fall; (also performing arts) a staged fall, a pratfall.
- (chiefly military slang) Forming compounds denoting a team, weapon, or device specialized in the destruction of the first element.
- (chiefly law enforcement slang) Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element.
- (gambling, slang) A cheat's die whose sides bear only certain combinations of spots, so that undesirable values can never be rolled.
- (chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
- a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
- a robust child
- a person who breaks horses
- an informal form of address for a man
- a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something
noun
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A horseshoe crab.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
noun
- The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.
- The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.
- Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.
- Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.
- A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
- Ellipsis of mustard gas.
- One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
- (baseball, colloquial) Energy, power (when throwing a baseball).
- any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica
- pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds
- leaves eaten as cooked greens
adj
noun
adj
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- (euphemistic) Soiled with feces.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- (chiefly literary, poetic) Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of liquids) clouded as with sediment
- dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- (of soil) soft and watery
verb
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- (also figuratively) Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
- (figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- cause to become muddy
- make turbid
- dirty with mud
noun
- A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
- A plant of species Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
- A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
- a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing
verb
adj
noun
noun
- An edible crab that is about to shed its shell.
- Something to be peeled.
- A person who works by peeling the bark off trees.
- Someone who breaks horses.
- One who peels.
- (surfing) An ideal wave.
- Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling.
- An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins.
- (derogatory, slang) A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment.
- A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A police officer.
- (horticulture) A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers.
- A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce.
- a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables
- a device for peeling vegetables or fruits
- a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
noun
noun
- large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida)
- pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor; found in Florida but now very rare
- A king crab (crustacean of subfamily Lithodinae).
- A mangrove stone crab (Myomenippe hardwickii, family Menippidae.
- A hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta, family Lomisidae)
- A Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria, family Menippidae.
noun
noun
- (rare, now Cornwall) A crab.
- A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
- A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
- An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
- A region of dead plant tissue caused by such a disease.
- A worm or grub that destroys plant buds or leaves; cankerworm.
- An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
- Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
- (phytopathology) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
- a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
- a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of
- an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
verb
- (transitive) To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
- (intransitive) To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
- (intransitive) To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
- become infected with a canker
- infect with a canker
noun
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A horseshoe crab.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- fish for crab
- scurry sideways like a crab
- complain
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (transitive) To complain about.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.