ride
tease
gripe
devil
get under one's goat
torque off
get someone's goat
grind one's gears
rub someone the wrong way
rub up the wrong way
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
fill up
get someone's dander up
put down
get someone's Irish up
get on someone's nerves
throw stones
spleen
nark
get on someone's tits
bust someone's balls
drive someone crazy
give someone the shits
frost
irk
neg
break someone's balls
harass
offend
get up someone's ass
grig
burn up
reproach
displease
needle
goad
badmouth
piss off
twist someone's balls
insulting
raunch out
insultingness
rag on
get in someone's hair
vellicate
take apart
stick
cut down
bag out
slur
mither
give stick
rip into
nip
hock
ridicule
piss in someone's cornflakes
give someone ass cancer
derisive
make game of
huff
fustigate
taunting
twit
roaster
taunt
importune
fuster
throw shade
reprehend
denounce
pink
rats
get stuck into
jibe
speak ill of
make someone's flesh creep
bah
odious
bother
comb someone's hair the wrong way
annoying
get under someone's skin
get the bird
zing
disoblige
pile on
bug
give someone the gears
piff
read
take the piss
ether
disparaging
vituperate
execrative
take someone's name in vain
come down
insulting
derisive
odious
disparaging
execrative
insultingness
stick
taunting
twit
roaster
taunt
annoying
zing
ride
tease
gripe
devil
get under one's goat
torque off
get someone's goat
grind one's gears
rub someone the wrong way
rub up the wrong way
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
fill up
get someone's dander up
put down
get someone's Irish up
get on someone's nerves
throw stones
spleen
nark
get on someone's tits
bust someone's balls
drive someone crazy
give someone the shits
frost
irk
neg
break someone's balls
harass
offend
get up someone's ass
grig
burn up
reproach
displease
needle
goad
badmouth
piss off
twist someone's balls
raunch out
rag on
get in someone's hair
vellicate
take apart
cut down
bag out
slur
mither
give stick
rip into
nip
hock
ridicule
piss in someone's cornflakes
give someone ass cancer
make game of
huff
fustigate
importune
fuster
throw shade
reprehend
denounce
pink
get stuck into
jibe
speak ill of
make someone's flesh creep
bother
comb someone's hair the wrong way
get under someone's skin
get the bird
disoblige
pile on
bug
give someone the gears
read
take the piss
ether
vituperate
take someone's name in vain
come down
verb
- To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To rely, depend (on).
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- To traverse by riding.
- To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
noun
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- An instance of riding.
- A vehicle.
- An act of sexual intercourse
- In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
verb
- To annoy or bother.
- To suffer griping pains.
- To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- To complain; to whine.
noun
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
verb
- To annoy or bother.
- 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 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
- 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.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
name
verb
- To annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging.
- To satisfy the hunger of (someone).
- To fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
- To become completely full.
- To make (something) completely full.
- To become tearful as a result of strong emotion.
- To fill in / fill out a form etc.
- To make a full house on the turn or the river.
- To satisfy one's hunger; to stop being hungry.
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 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
- To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.
- To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.
- To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks.
- To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
verb
noun
- Criticism or ridicule.
- A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- The clarinet.
- Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- General hitting ability.
- A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- The short whip carried by a jockey.
- A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- A handgun.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Corporal punishment; beatings.
- The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- The traction of tires on the road surface.
- The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- A memory stick.
- A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
adj
verb
- To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- To perform (a landing) perfectly.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- To stab.
- To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- To persist.
- Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To propagate plants by cuttings.
- To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- To jam; to stop moving.
- To furnish or set with sticks.
- To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
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).
verb
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- To squeeze or pinch.
- To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To taunt.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
noun
- A hamburger.
- A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- Briskly cold weather.
- A playful bite.
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small quantity of something edible or a potable liquor.
- A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- A short turn in a rope.
- The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
verb
- To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
- To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
- To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
- To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag.
- To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat.
noun
- Installment purchase.
- Debt.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- Prison.
- The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
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 criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension, etc.; to openly accuse or condemn in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize; to blame.
- To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
- To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
- To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
verb
- To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
- To become pink in color, to redden.
- Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
- Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
- To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
- To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
- To turn (something) pink.
- To prick with a sword.
adj
- Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
- Having conjunctivitis.
- Relating to women or girls.
- Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
- Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
noun
- The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
- Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
- A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
- An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
- Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
- Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
- The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
- The vagina or vulva.
noun
- A witty insult or derogatory remark.
- A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string.
- Zest or vitality.
- Pleasant or exciting flavour of food.
verb
- To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum.
- To address a witty insult or comeback to.
intj
verb
- To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- To annoy.
noun
- A problem that needs fixing.
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- HIV.
- A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- A young apprentice jockey.
- A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
- A trilobite.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- Synonym of union bug.
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
verb
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
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).
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