English words for 'Alternative spelling of bullfighting.'
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- (bullfighting) The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
- (card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
- (card games) One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.
- (uncountable) A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
- the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull
- (slang) A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock.
- (chiefly Ireland, slang) The penis.
- (computing) The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, slang, rare) The vulva.
- (informal) In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“an Irishman”).
- (originally US) Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
- (informal) The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
- (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, such as whiskey, usually holding 375 millilitres (13.2 imperial fluid ounces; 12.7 U.S. fluid ounces), typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
- (bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.
- (Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
- (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
- any plant of the genus Veronica
- Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
- With adverbs of manner.
- With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- With predicative adjectives.
- To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
- Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
- With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
- Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
- With verbs, especially past participles.
- Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
- of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)
- to the greatest extent; completely
- to a degree (not used with a negative)
- actually or truly or to an extreme
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- (bullfighting) The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
- (card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
- (card games) One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.
- (uncountable) A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
- the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull
- (slang) A young bull, especially one which is unbranded and running wild; a bullock.
- (chiefly Ireland, slang) The penis.
- (computing) The smallest distance that a computer mouse can move a cursor on a screen, which is used to measure the device's resolution or sensitivity.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, slang, rare) The vulva.
- (informal) In take the mickey: a person's (false) pride, which is criticized through disparagement or ridicule; piss.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Short for Mickey Bliss (“an act of urinating; a piss”).
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“an Irishman”).
- (originally US) Alternative letter-case form of Mickey (“a Mickey Finn: an alcoholic drink deliberately doctored with a drug intended to quickly render the drinker unconscious”).
- (informal) The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a honeyeater endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia.
- (chiefly Canada, informal) A small bottle of liquor, such as whiskey, usually holding 375 millilitres (13.2 imperial fluid ounces; 12.7 U.S. fluid ounces), typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
- (bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.
- (Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
- (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
- any plant of the genus Veronica
- Coming before the definite article and an attributive superlative.
- With adverbs of manner.
- With attributive adjectives, following an (especially indefinite) article; chiefly as expressing contrast, difference etc.
- With predicative adjectives.
- To a moderate extent or degree; somewhat, rather.
- Before a noun preceded by the definite article.
- With plain adjectives, past participles, and adverbs.
- Coming before the indefinite article and an attributive adjective. (Now largely merged with moderative senses, below.)
- With prepositional phrases and spatial adverbs.
- Preceding nouns introduced by the indefinite article. Chiefly in negative constructions.
- With verbs, especially past participles.
- Before a noun preceded by an indefinite article; now often with ironic implications that the noun in question is particularly noteworthy or remarkable.
- of an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)
- to the greatest extent; completely
- to a degree (not used with a negative)
- actually or truly or to an extreme
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noun
adj
verb
noun
verb
noun
adv
intj
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