pansy
bollocks up
bungle
blow
beef
screw the pooch
brick
fuster
screwtape
bollocks
butcher
cack up
go to smash
bitch up
tatter
piss up
shit up
swamp
mess
fossick
go wrong
stymie
nause up
blunder
require improvement
neglect
doit
make a hash of
mommick
badass
twat around
bog
make a pig's ear of
banjax
twat about
misfall
cock up
bagarap
burble
suckhole
scantle
queer up
unsatisfy
come a cropper
blunderingly
mullock
make hard work of
bottom fall out
mess up
botch up
trash
take on water
sow one's wild oats
unfulfillment
mischance
go
begin at the wrong end
monkey
blunderous
fuck with
down the toilet
bite the big one
get blood out of a stone
oops
misfuck
give out
backfire
troublesomely
blundering
problemise
balls up
hooped
botch
hassle
act up
screw up
hork
slob out
blow up in one's face
dismalize
raise Cain
fall flat on one's face
trash fire
totter
blow up
kamikaze
hash
come a gutser
induratize
look for trouble
mis-
hard-set
gooch
disimprove
snapper
go it
badass
blunderous
hooped
hard-set
blunderingly
troublesomely
banjax
mullock
unfulfillment
blundering
trash fire
pansy
bollocks up
bungle
blow
beef
screw the pooch
brick
fuster
screwtape
bollocks
butcher
cack up
go to smash
bitch up
tatter
piss up
shit up
swamp
mess
fossick
go wrong
stymie
nause up
blunder
require improvement
neglect
doit
make a hash of
mommick
twat around
bog
make a pig's ear of
twat about
misfall
cock up
bagarap
burble
suckhole
scantle
queer up
unsatisfy
come a cropper
make hard work of
bottom fall out
mess up
botch up
trash
take on water
sow one's wild oats
mischance
go
begin at the wrong end
monkey
fuck with
bite the big one
get blood out of a stone
oops
misfuck
give out
backfire
problemise
balls up
botch
hassle
act up
screw up
hork
slob out
blow up in one's face
dismalize
raise Cain
fall flat on one's face
totter
blow up
kamikaze
hash
come a gutser
induratize
look for trouble
gooch
disimprove
snapper
go it
verb
- To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
- To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
- To flatulate or defecate.
- To produce an air current.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To sing.
- To blow from a gun.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To be very undesirable.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To recklessly squander.
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
adj
noun
- Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- Cocaine.
- An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- A damaging occurrence.
- Cannabis.
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A strong wind.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A blowjob; fellatio.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- Heroin.
- A chance to catch one's breath.
- A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
verb
- To fail or mess up.
- To feud or hold a grudge against.
- To cry.
- To add weight or strength to.
- To fart; break wind.
- To complain.
noun
- A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
- Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
- Bovine animals.
- Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
adj
verb
- To blunder; to screw up.
- To make into bricks.
- To build, line, or form with bricks.
- To hit someone or something with a brick.
- To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
noun
- A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- The colour brick red.
- An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- A projectile.
- Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- Something shaped like a brick.
- A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
adj
verb
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
- To belong to a mess.
- To eat (with others).
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
- To supply with a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- To take meals with a mess.
- To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- To interfere.
noun
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- A large quantity or number.
- Excrement.
- A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
- A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- A group of iguanas.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
verb
- To cause a problem with; to introduce an error or mistake in; to make muddled or confused; spoil; ruin.
- To make a mistake; to do something incorrectly; to perform poorly.
- To botch, bungle; to perform poorly on.
- To damage; injure.
- To manhandle; beat up; rough up.
- To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
- To cause (another person) to make unwanted mistakes in a given task, usually through distraction or obnoxious behavior.
- To discombobulate, utterly confuse, or confound psychologically; to throw into a state of mental disarray.
verb
verb
- To make into a mess.
- To disrespect someone or something
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- To discard.
- To beat soundly in a game.
noun
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
verb
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- 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 make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- 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 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.
verb
noun
- A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
- A black, a black person.
- Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- Synonym of five hundred, especially (Britain) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- Synonym of face card.
verb
- To break down, get out of order, fail.
- To issue; to distribute.
- To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
- To complain, sulk, chastise.
- To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
- To desist.
- To put forth, utter (prayers).
- To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
- To run short, come to an end.
- To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
verb
- To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
- To repair or mend clumsily.
- To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
noun
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
verb
verb
- To fail disastrously.
- To blow something upward.
- To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- To blow the whistle.
- To suddenly get very angry.
- To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- To become popular very quickly.
- To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, etc., often exasperating the recipient.
- Receiving a large number of calls or notifications to the point of making the device effectively unusable.
- To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation.
- To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
- To enlarge or zoom in.
verb
- To fail disastrously.
- To carry out a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
- To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.
adj
noun
- A cocktail made of equal parts vodka, triple sec and lime juice.
- A vehicle used for a suicide attack, especially an aircraft.
- An attack requiring the suicide of the one carrying it out, especially when done with an aircraft.
- One who takes excessive risks, as for example in a sporting event.
- A deliberate wipeout.
- One who carries out a suicide attack, especially with an aircraft.
verb
- To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
- To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- To transform according to a hash function.
- To make a quick, rough version.
noun
- The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- A hash run.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- A stupid fellow.
- One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- A confused mess.
- The result generated by a hash function.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
verb
noun
- The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- A stumble, a trip.
- A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- The snapping turtle.
- Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- A string bean.
- A punchline.
- A (human) baby.
- One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- The vulva.
- The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
- Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
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