keep on
fussbudgety
get on someone's case
pseudolisten
labour the point
heterogenium
kick up a fuss
mislisten
interpose
ignore
hocus-pocus
talk cock
read
ride
reticence
beat around the bush
passive
preach in the desert
misattend
bepommel
whinge
wrangle
get on someone's wick
frustration
chip in
harp on
bug up one's ass
wag a finger
draw a veil over
chit-chat
dispraise
hear the end of it
put the bad mouth on
eavesdrop
misheed
rip into
grievance
get under one's goat
tease
deflect
see here
small talk
duty calls
yak
bellyache
gas
critique
railingly
don't get someone started
vellicate
piss in someone's cornflakes
annoy
talk sense
mind
bitch
take the piss
unheed
clamper
die
impulsive speech
so much the worse for
discomfort
draw
rub someone the wrong way
make a big thing out of
scream loudest
smatter
throw up
crab
disagreeableness
sealion
debate
get the bird
talk
feed the flames
disfavour
if I may say so
slag
belabour
would it kill someone
he who smelt it dealt it
gaffle
have it
go in one ear and out the other
draw fire
earbash
unamusement
smack talk
cavil
torque off
gossip
grumble
peeve
rouse
thorn in someone's side
now you tell me
quibble
blah
put one's foot in one's mouth
gravel
fussbudgety
passive
railingly
if I may say so
heterogenium
hocus-pocus
read
frustration
bug up one's ass
grievance
small talk
impulsive speech
disagreeableness
debate
talk
unamusement
gossip
peeve
thorn in someone's side
keep on
get on someone's case
pseudolisten
labour the point
kick up a fuss
mislisten
interpose
ignore
talk cock
ride
reticence
beat around the bush
preach in the desert
misattend
bepommel
whinge
wrangle
get on someone's wick
chip in
harp on
wag a finger
draw a veil over
chit-chat
dispraise
hear the end of it
put the bad mouth on
eavesdrop
misheed
rip into
get under one's goat
tease
deflect
yak
bellyache
gas
critique
vellicate
piss in someone's cornflakes
annoy
talk sense
mind
bitch
take the piss
unheed
clamper
die
discomfort
draw
rub someone the wrong way
make a big thing out of
scream loudest
smatter
crab
sealion
get the bird
feed the flames
disfavour
slag
belabour
gaffle
have it
go in one ear and out the other
draw fire
earbash
smack talk
cavil
torque off
grumble
rouse
quibble
put one's foot in one's mouth
gravel
noun
- Some ineffectual action or speech, especially if intended to divert attention; nonsense.
- Religious or supernatural phenomena one holds to be nonsense or mere trickery; superstitious mumbo-jumbo.
- Some action carried out to bring about change as if by magic; a trick; sleight of hand, trickery.
intj
noun
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- 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
verb
- 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 call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- 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.
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
noun
adj
- Being in the passive voice.
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- Taking no action.
- Not participating in management.
- Of a component: that consumes but does not produce energy, or is incapable of power gain.
- Where allowance is made for a possible future event.
- Being inactive and submissive in a relationship, especially in a sexual one.
- Without motive power.
noun
verb
- To argue, to debate; also (dated), to debate or discuss publicly, especially about a thesis at a university.
- To quarrel angrily and noisily; to bicker.
- Followed by out of: to elicit (something) from a person by arguing or bargaining.
- To gather and organize (data, facts, information, etc.), especially in a way which requires sentience rather than automated methods alone, as in data wrangling.
- To make harsh noises as if quarrelling.
- To convince or influence (someone) by arguing or contending.
- To herd (horses or other livestock).
- To manage or supervise (people).
noun
verb
- To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
- To listen for another organism's calls, so as to exploit them.
noun
- The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard.
- A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building.
- The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house.
- The space around a house on which such water drips.
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 talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
- To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
- To attack or kill with poison gas.
- To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
- To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- To emit gas.
- To impregnate with gas.
- To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
noun
- Arterial or venous blood gas.
- Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- Poison gas.
- A hob on a gas cooker.
- A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
- A humorous or entertaining event or person.
- Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
- A fastball.
- Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
adj
verb
- To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- To purpose, intend, plan.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To remember.
- To be careful about.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- Attention, consideration or thought.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
verb
- To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
- To spoil, to ruin.
- To behave or act as a bitch.
noun
- An obviously gay man.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A queen.
- Place; situation
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- A difficult or confounding problem.
- A woman.
- Friend.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
verb
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
verb
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
verb
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
noun
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
noun
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- Discussion of opposing views.
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
verb
noun
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- A lecture.
- A major topic of social discussion.
- Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- Gossip; rumour.
verb
- To discuss; to talk about.
- To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- To gossip; to create scandal.
- Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- To speak (a certain language).
- To confess, especially implicating others.
verb
- To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- To spit.
- To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- To reduce to slag.
- To produce slag.
noun
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- A prostitute, or a woman who acts like one; a slut.
- Waste material from a mine.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- A contemptible person, a scumbag.
verb
- To attract criticism or an angry reaction.
- To create a distraction that allows one's friends, co-workers, or other associates to gain an advantage over the distracted party.
- In an armed encounter, to attract gunfire from an adversary, whether unintentionally or deliberately for the purpose of allowing one's allies or colleagues to gain a tactical advantage over the adversary.
noun
- Idle conversation in general.
- Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
- A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of a child.
- Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
- A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
verb
verb
- To tell off; to criticise.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
intj
- Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- An expression of mild frustration.
- Representing the sound of vomiting.
noun
- (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
- Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
verb
adj
verb
- To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
- To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
- To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
- To puzzle or annoy.
- To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
noun
- A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
- A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
- A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- Inability to see at night; night blindness.
- gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike
- Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
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