get on at
lambaste
get stuck into
give someone the gears
yarm
give someone a speaking to
get onto
earbash
lay out
fuck
call
rag
dress down
wrinch
eat someone alive
rip to shreds
drib
get on someone's case
harsh
drub
trash out
rubbish
snarl
bitch off
rouse
inveigh
colloquium
make noise
bind
yell at
warm
give what for
you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
quibble
whine
mouthfuck
vituperate
moan
nudzh
dog
vellicate
thrust
rip into
bawl out
rebuke
gripe
a hit dog will holler
drip
raise hell
light someone's ass up
read off
pile on
reprehend
lay into
rail
lecture
knock
croak
boohoo
lash
jaw
objurgate
whinge
chew off
outscold
get up
crib
grutch
beat up on
throw stones
beratingly
give someone what-for
blub
denounce
badmouth
criticizingly
offend
speak ill of
chide
whimper
remonstrate
have one's ears pinned back
brickbat
baww
bagsy
complaintive
chew out
hoot
bepommel
dump on
orp
ream out
fuster
critique
draw fire
tell off
harangue
tongue-lash
create
complaintive
beratingly
criticizingly
colloquium
thrust
lecture
whine
whimper
critique
harangue
get on at
lambaste
get stuck into
give someone the gears
yarm
give someone a speaking to
get onto
earbash
lay out
fuck
call
rag
dress down
wrinch
eat someone alive
rip to shreds
drib
get on someone's case
harsh
drub
trash out
rubbish
snarl
bitch off
rouse
inveigh
make noise
bind
yell at
warm
give what for
quibble
whine
mouthfuck
vituperate
moan
nudzh
dog
vellicate
rip into
bawl out
rebuke
gripe
drip
raise hell
light someone's ass up
read off
pile on
reprehend
lay into
rail
knock
croak
boohoo
lash
jaw
objurgate
whinge
chew off
outscold
get up
crib
grutch
beat up on
throw stones
give someone what-for
blub
denounce
badmouth
offend
speak ill of
chide
remonstrate
have one's ears pinned back
brickbat
baww
bagsy
chew out
hoot
bepommel
dump on
orp
ream out
fuster
draw fire
tell off
tongue-lash
create
verb
verb
- To scold or berate.
- To concoct; think up.
- To prepare a body for burial.
- To arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).
- To lie in the sunshine.
- To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
- To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.
- simple past tense of lie out
- To explain; to interpret.
verb
- To scold.
- To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.
- To have sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- To defraud, deface, or otherwise treat badly.
- Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- To be very good, to rule, go hard.
- Used to express great displeasure with, or contemptuous dismissal of, someone or something.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.
- To break, to destroy.
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
adv
intj
- Expressing surprise.
- Expressing dismay or discontent.
- A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
noun
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- A highly contemptible person.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
particle
verb
- To scold.
- To require, demand.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
noun
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
verb
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- To dance to ragtime music.
- To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- To become tattered.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
noun
- A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- A curtain of various kinds.
- A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- Tattered clothes.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
verb
- To scold.
- To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
- To beat; thrash; drub.
- To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
- To shoot at a mark at short range.
- To entice step by step.
- To cut off; chop off.
- To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- To shoot directly at short range.
- To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
verb
- To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- To become entangled.
- To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
noun
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A squabble.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
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.
noun
- That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
verb
- To complain; to whine about something.
- To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- To put together in a cover, as of books.
- To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- To place under legal obligation to serve.
- To cover, as with a bandage.
- To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
- To make two or more elements stick together.
- To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- To couple.
- To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
noun
- That which binds or ties.
- A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- The indurated clay of coal mines.
- A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
verb
- To scold or abuse verbally.
- To become ardent or animated.
- To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
- To become warm, to heat up.
- (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
- To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- To make or keep warm.
- To beat or spank.
adj
- Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
- Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
- Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
- Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
- Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
- Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
noun
verb
- To criticize.
- To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
- To pursue with the intent to catch.
- To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
- To fasten a hatch securely.
- To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
noun
- A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
- A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
- The meat of this animal, eaten as food
- A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
- A man, guy, chap.
- The eighteenth Lenormand card.
- One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
- Something that performs poorly.
- Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
- A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
- A sexually aggressive man.
- Underdog.
- Foot.
- The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
- Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
- A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
- Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
adj
verb
- To complain; to whine.
- 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 annoy or bother.
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 whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- To have a superabundance of valuable things.
- To rain lightly.
- To be wet, to be soaked.
- To fall one drop at a time.
- To leak slowly.
- To let fall in drops.
noun
- A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- A drop of a liquid.
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
- An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
verb
- To complain violently (against, about).
- To enclose with rails or a railing.
- To range in a line.
- To place on a track.
- To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- To travel by railway.
noun
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- A vertical section on one side of a web page.
verb
- To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
- To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
- To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
noun
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
- A sharp impact.
- A batsman's innings.
- A blow or setback.
- Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
- Synonym of hunger knock
- A criticism.
verb
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
noun
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- To scold; to clamor.
- To talk; to converse.
- To assail or abuse by scolding.
- (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
noun
- Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth or way of entrance.
- Axle guard.
- One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
- The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
- The part of the face below the mouth.
- A notch or opening.
- One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them.
- A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
- The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
verb
verb
- To criticise.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
verb
- To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
noun
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- A bed for a child older than a baby.
- One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- A wicker basket.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- The card game cribbage.
- A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- A small raft made of timber.
- A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
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 make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
- To claim the right of working a mine that is abandoned or insufficiently worked.
- To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.
verb
- To state or plead as an objection, formal protest, or expression of disapproval.
- Specifically, to lodge an official objection (especially by means of a remonstrance) with a monarch or other ruling body.
- To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
- To object with in critical fashion; to express disapproval (with, against).
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.
verb
- To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
- In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
- To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
- To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
- To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
- To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
- To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
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