face up to
face up
hot
rub someone's nose in
feel the heat
incommodious
bugger
messy
discomfortableness
argh
wretchedness
subject
awkwardness
swallow a bitter pill
hand wringing
no picnic
bummer
face the music
yikes
disagreeable
cross to bear
uncomfortableness
grit one's teeth
ruffle someone's feathers
matter
awkward
come to grips
take the bull by the horns
tough cookie
confrontation
entangle
queasiness
disconcerting
squirmage
nightmare
turn a hair
issue
hassle
unpleasure
cringe
change the subject
shitpile
tiptoe around
killer
situation
bastard
run
the devil
out of one's element
discomfort
gnawingly
nuisance value
unpleasantry
kicker
irritation
smarting
soreness
trouble
indaba
cunt
embrace the suck
comfortless
at
bemoan
war story
pain in the ass
uneasy
beast
shitkicker
drop someone in it
growlf
breathe down someone's neck
sticky
unenviable
sugarcoat the pill
aversion therapy
over a barrel
embarrassing
mug
try one's patience
abominable
set someone's teeth on edge
on the receiving end
indifferent
inconvenience
moan
make one's bed and lie in it
nocifensive
miscare
fret
devil
groan
endure
asperity
maul
irritancy
disturbing
hot
incommodious
messy
disagreeable
awkward
disconcerting
killer
out of one's element
smarting
comfortless
uneasy
sticky
unenviable
embarrassing
mug
abominable
indifferent
nocifensive
disturbing
gnawingly
bugger
discomfortableness
wretchedness
awkwardness
hand wringing
bummer
cross to bear
uncomfortableness
matter
tough cookie
confrontation
queasiness
squirmage
nightmare
issue
hassle
unpleasure
shitpile
situation
bastard
the devil
discomfort
nuisance value
unpleasantry
kicker
irritation
soreness
trouble
indaba
cunt
war story
pain in the ass
beast
shitkicker
aversion therapy
miscare
devil
asperity
irritancy
face up to
face up
rub someone's nose in
feel the heat
subject
swallow a bitter pill
face the music
grit one's teeth
ruffle someone's feathers
come to grips
take the bull by the horns
entangle
turn a hair
cringe
change the subject
tiptoe around
run
discomfort
embrace the suck
bemoan
drop someone in it
breathe down someone's neck
sugarcoat the pill
try one's patience
set someone's teeth on edge
inconvenience
moan
make one's bed and lie in it
fret
groan
endure
maul
adj
- Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
- Stolen.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something
- Extremely fast or with great speed.
- Sexually aroused; randy.
- Very good, remarkable, exciting.
- Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
- Feverish.
- Of great current interest; provoking current debate or controversy.
- Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
- Active, in use or ready for use (like a bullet or a firing range), turned on (like a microphone or camera).
- Sexual or sexy; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
- Popular; in demand.
- Easily provoked to anger.
- Fresh; just released.
- Having or giving off a high temperature.
- Characterized by police presence or activity.
- Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
- Spicy, pungent, piquant, as some chilis and other spices are.
- Loud, producing a strong electric signal for the amplifier.
- Extremely attracted to.
- Electrically charged.
- Radioactive.
- Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
verb
adv
noun
- A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
- One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
- Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
- A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
- Someone who is very fond of something
- Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
- A whippersnapper, a tyke.
verb
- To have anal sex with, sodomize.
- To feel contempt for some person or thing.
- To feel frustration with something, or to consider that something is futile.
- To be fatigued.
- To be surprised.
- To break or ruin.
intj
verb
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
adj
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
noun
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
noun
- An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
- Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
- Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
- The basic structural component of the universe, usually having mass and volume.
- An approximate amount or extent.
- Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
- A kind of substance.
verb
verb
- To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse or perplexing circumstances, interests, demands, etc.; to hamper; to bewilder.
- To ensnare.
- To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
- To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
noun
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
verb
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver for use.
- To deliver by authority.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
verb
- To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
- To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
- To bow or crouch in servility.
- To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
noun
- A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
- An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
- A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
- Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
adj
adj
- Distressing, uncomfortable.
- Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.
- Excellent, very good, cool.
noun
- A particularly heavy type of handstamp, or portion of one, often obscuring a large part of the postage stamp.
- A knockout form of darts or pool involving several players.
- That which causes stress or is extremely difficult, especially that which may cause failure at a task.
- Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”)
- One who or that which kills.
- A remarkably impressive person or thing.
- Something that is so far ahead of its competition that it effectively kills off that competition.
- A club used for killing fish.
noun
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- A position of employment; a post.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- An outfit, garment, or look.
- An individual movie theater.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
noun
- Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A person deserving of pity.
- A sweet wine.
- A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A bastard file.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- A child who does not know their father.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
intj
adj
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
- Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
verb
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
noun
- An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant.
- An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
- An outboard motor.
- A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
- A relaxed party.
- The kicking strap.
- The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- One who takes kicks.
- An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- One who kicks.
- Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”)
- A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
- Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
- A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
- A backlight positioned at an angle.
- A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- A launch ramp.
- A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
noun
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
- a sudden outburst of anger
- (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation
- the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland
- unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
noun
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- A malfunction.
- A violent occurrence or event.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
noun
- An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
- A woman, women, or bottom (i.e. submissive partner, not the top) as a source of sex.
- An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand more usually a man).
- (with words funny, good) A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
- The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
- An objectionable object or item.
prep
- Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
- (also as at; before dates) On a particular date.
- Occupied in (activity).
- In a state of.
- On the subject of; regarding.
- In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
- Denotes a price.
- Because of.
- Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
- Indicates a means, method, or manner.
- Holding a given speed or rate.
- Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.
- In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
noun
noun
- Something unpleasant and difficult.
- Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
- A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.
- Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
- Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
- A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
- A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
- A sex offender.
- A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A stupid or contemptible person.
- A gullible or easily-cheated person.
- The face.
- A criminal.
- A large cup for beverages, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
- Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug")
verb
- To assault for the purpose of robbery.
- To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
- To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner.
- To learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
prep_phrase
verb
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To press down the string behind a fret.
- To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- A channel or passage created by the sea.
- One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
- A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
noun
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
- A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A dust devil.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
- An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- Hell.
name
verb
- To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- To annoy or bother.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
noun
- The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
- The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
- An area that protrudes from a surface.
- A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
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