give someone what-for
blackmail
get someone's Irish up
harangue
get stuck into
get someone's dander up
lambaste
give someone the gears
pelt
hurl
set up someone's birse
throw stones
rip into
lapidate
inch
drive someone up the wall
chopse
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tear someone a new one
tell off
fit to kill
get bent out of shape
jaw
give curry
spit nails
ether
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vituperate
bepommel
pique
swipe
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give stick
read someone the riot act
outrage
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let someone have it
abuse
belabour
speech
torque off
trash out
light someone's ass up
drub
pile on
rark up
beratingly
slam
blaze
backtalk
bad-talk
huff
rub up the wrong way
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
have it in for
scorch
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yab
forget you
bawl out
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polemize
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malding
incense
bite someone's head off
fustigate
give it large
the rough side of one's tongue
mouthfuck
murder
angrify
insultory
lam into
irefulness
get onto
vellicate
snap
insulter
trout slap
cynical
put down
snarl
bait
frost
rile
tirade
give someone a speaking to
jump on
slur
cut down
embarrass
madden
assault
insulting
wrathfully
steam
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beratingly
derisively
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harangue
swipe
lecture
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irefulness
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give someone what-for
blackmail
get someone's Irish up
get stuck into
get someone's dander up
lambaste
give someone the gears
pelt
hurl
set up someone's birse
throw stones
rip into
lapidate
inch
drive someone up the wall
chopse
splutter
chide
tear someone a new one
tell off
get bent out of shape
jaw
give curry
spit nails
ether
have words
vituperate
bepommel
pique
pull up
give stick
read someone the riot act
outrage
carry
let someone have it
abuse
belabour
speech
torque off
trash out
light someone's ass up
drub
pile on
rark up
slam
blaze
backtalk
bad-talk
huff
rub up the wrong way
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
have it in for
scorch
rage
yab
bawl out
polemize
incense
bite someone's head off
fustigate
give it large
mouthfuck
murder
angrify
lam into
get onto
vellicate
snap
trout slap
put down
snarl
bait
frost
rile
tirade
give someone a speaking to
jump on
slur
cut down
embarrass
madden
steam
verb
- To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
- Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
- Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
- To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
- To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
- To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
- Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
- To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
noun
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
verb
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
adj
noun
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
- To direct angry words, criticism, insults, etc., at (someone or something).
- To forcefully emit (something), especially in small drops or particles; to sputter.
- To soil or sprinkle (someone or something) with a substance, often a liquid; to bespatter, to spatter.
- To make a sound or sounds of something forcefully emitting a substance in small drops or particles.
- Followed by out: to go out (as a flame) or stop functioning (as an engine or machine) with a spluttering action or sound (senses 2.1 or 2.3).
- Of a thing: to forcefully emit something, especially in small drops or particles.
- Of a substance: to be emitted forcefully in small drops or particles.
- To speak hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
- To spray droplets of saliva from the mouth while eating or speaking.
- To perform in an inconsistent manner to a substandard level.
- Sometimes followed by out: to speak (words) hurriedly, and confusedly or unclearly.
noun
verb
- To assail or abuse by scolding.
- To talk; to converse.
- To scold; to clamor.
- (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
noun
- Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.
- Axle guard.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- A notch or opening.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
verb
noun
- The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
- Starting fluid.
- Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
- The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
- A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
- Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
- The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
- Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
verb
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To score a pique against (someone).
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
- To pride (oneself) on something.
- To take pride in.
noun
- Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
noun
- An attack, insult or critical remark.
- A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep.
- A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
- An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
- An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- Poor, weak beer or other inferior alcoholic beverage; rotgut.
- A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
verb
verb
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- To cause (a person) to stop.
- To lift upwards or vertically.
- To pull forward.
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
verb
- To insult, to diss.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage.
- To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
- To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of a drug than was prescribed for recreational reasons; to take illegal drugs habitually.
- To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert
noun
- Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom.
- Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
- Misuse; improper use; perversion.
- Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
- Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a repeated basis.
verb
noun
- The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
verb
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- To defeat or overcome in a match.
- To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- To make a slam bid.
- To occupy and busy with a high workload.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
noun
- An insult.
- Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- A slambook.
- The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
- A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
- A slam dunk.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- A sudden impact or blow.
- A poetry slam.
- A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
verb
- To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- To disclose; bewray; defame
- To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- To set in a blaze; burn.
- To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- To smoke marijuana.
- To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- To blazon
- To blow, as from a trumpet
- To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- To publish; announce publicly
- To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
noun
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- A hand consisting of five face cards.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
verb
- To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
- To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- To enlarge; to swell up.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- To breathe heavily.
- To say in a huffy manner.
noun
verb
- To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
- To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
- To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
- To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
- (To cause) to become scorched or singed
- To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
noun
verb
- To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
- To botch or mangle.
- To devour, ravish.
- To defeat decisively.
- To deliberately kill (a person or persons) without justification, especially with malice aforethought.
noun
- The act of deliberate killing of a person or other being without moral justification, especially with malice aforethought.
- Something terrible to endure.
- A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
- The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
- The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification.
verb
verb
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- move or strike with a noise
- close with a snapping motion
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- put in play with a snap
- cause to make a snapping sound
- lose control of one's emotions
- bring the jaws together
- record on photographic film
noun
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a spell of cold weather
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- a sudden sharp noise
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
noun
adj
- Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
- Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
- Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
- Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
- Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
verb
- To insult, belittle, or demean.
- To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
- To euthanize (an animal).
- To make prices, or taxes, lower.
- To pay.
- To terminate a call; to hang up.
- To give something as a reason for something else.
- To add a name to a list.
- To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
- To land.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
- To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- To write (something).
- To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
- To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
verb
- To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
- (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
- To attract with bait; to entice.
- (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
- To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
- To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
adj
noun
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
- A packed lunch.
- A post intended to get a rise out of others.
- Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
- A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- A miner's packed meal.
verb
- To anger or annoy.
- To cover with frost.
- To become covered with frost.
- To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
noun
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A kind of light diffuser.
verb
verb
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
noun
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- An insinuation or innuendo.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
- A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
noun
- A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
- A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
- A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
- An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
- An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
- The tort whose action is such an act.
- The crime whose action is such an attempt.
verb
verb
- To make angry.
- To be covered with condensed water vapor.
- To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- To travel by means of steam power.
- To cook with steam.
- To produce or vent steam.
- To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
adj
noun
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- mist, fog
- Pent-up anger.
- A steam-powered vehicle.
- Internal energy for motive power.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.
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