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offbeat
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scratch
imaginally
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fragilely
have swallowed a dictionary
jiffle
vernacularize
bootstrap
tinker
wish
upseek
take the trouble
go
fling
worm
informally
put one's shoulder into
curious
weasel
mundanely
spur on
heave
improvidently
dip into
manipulative
shorthand
clever
questing
venture
improvisation
foozle
hesitatively
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lash-up
make a play
lie before
aspecifically
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spur
erm
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urging
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eccentrically
prodding
flatfoot
goading
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fish
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verb
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To ponder or think about (something).
noun
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
verb
- To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state.
- To search by sense of touch.
- To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
- To be or become aware of.
- To seem (through touch or otherwise).
- To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- To understand.
- To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
- To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
- To experience the consequences of.
- To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
noun
noun
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- the act of firing a projectile
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- a chance to do something
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- a small drink of liquor
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- an estimate based on little or no information
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
- an explosive charge used in blasting
- a blow hard enough to cause injury
- an attempt to score in a game
- the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
- throwing the basketball toward the hoop
adj
verb
- To push (something) into something.
- To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- To make by digging or delving.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
noun
- An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- Descending motion; descent.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A sinkhole.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A heat sink.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- The motion of a sinker pitch.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
verb
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
noun
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
verb
- To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).
- To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.
- To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.
- To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.
- To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.
- To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.
- To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.
verb
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- to get such scratches
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To dig or excavate with the claws.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
adj
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
noun
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Money.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- A scratch wig.
- A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
- The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- An injury.
verb
verb
- To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
- To work as a tinker.
noun
- A bird, the razor-billed auk.
- A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
- The act of repair or invention.
- Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
- Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
verb
- To request or desire to do an activity.
- To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
- To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
- I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.
- To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
- To desire; to want.
noun
verb
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
noun
- An attempt, a try (as in "give it a fling").
- An act of throwing, often violently.
- A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
- A lively Scottish country dance.
- An act or period of unrestrained indulgence.
- An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
verb
verb
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To engage in clever or devious behavior.
- To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
- To achieve by clever or devious means.
noun
- The taxonomic family Mustelidae is also called the weasel family.
- Any of the carnivorous mammals of the genus Mustela, having a slender body, a long tail and usually a light brown upper coat and light-coloured belly.
- The least weasel, Mustela nivalis.
- A devious or sneaky person or animal.
- A type of yarn winder used for counting the yardage of handspun yarn. It most commonly has a wooden peg or dowel that pops up from the gearing mechanism after a certain number of yards have been wound onto the winder.
verb
- To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- To throw, cast.
- To displace (a vein, stratum).
- To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- To rise and fall.
- To utter with effort.
- To pull up with a rope or cable.
- To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- Broken wind in horses.
- The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
adj
- Skilled at achieving what one wants, especially via unusual methods.
- Mentally quick and resourceful.
- Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.
- Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.
- Possessing magical abilities.
- Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
- Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent.
- Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.
verb
- To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
- To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
- Synonym of tinker, to make small adjustments or improvements.
noun
- Synonym of workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- Synonym of clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.
- Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
verb
adv
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- into the goal
- To the home page
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- To one's place of birth
- into the right, proper or stowed position
noun
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
adj
verb
- To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- To use as bait when fishing.
- To hoist the flukes of.
- To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water.
noun
- A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- A woman.
- The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A male homosexual; a gay man.
- An easy victim for swindling.
- A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- Superclass Osteichthyes, bony fish.
- Class Myxini, the hagfish (no vertebra)
- A cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- The flesh of the fish used as food.
- Class Petromyzontida, the lampreys (no jaw)
- Cod; codfish.
- Class Chondrichthyes, cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays
- A period of time spent fishing.
- A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- An instance of seeking something.
verb
- To attempt (something).
- To affect.
- To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
- To try tasting, as food or drink.
noun
- Tested purity or value.
- Trial, attempt.
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
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