flash
throw someone a curve
sit up
bam
come out with
my sainted aunt
my sainted uncle
wut
raise eyebrows
surprise
out of nowhere
stun
turn up
jar
foreboder
good grief
crop up
take aback
fray
blurtation
whiplash
inject
shake
oh my gods
yeep
blitz out
ay, chihuahua
Jove
implicate
overtake
boom
spring up
ehh
gloppen
startle
off guard
bowl a googly
aiyee
unawares
zoiks
zowie
oh my word
hey presto
oh my stars
cant
make someone's jaw drop
geez
strewth
seize
take by surprise
fortune
holy crickets
click
holy cow
God Almighty
jeepers creepers
shut my mouth
Jiminy Cricket
leap to mind
show up
jaw-dropper
holy Toledo
sucker punch
gleeps
alarm
excuse me
crazysauce
oh my Lord
oi
light upon
I'll be bound
bode
holy shamoley
ooh
I'll be danged
haibo
I'll be damned
for heaven's sake
warningly
whoa
rah
hey
holy macaroni
my goodness
holy doodle
wisha
holy mackerel
surprising
suddenness
blurt out
oh
the devil you say
steady on
aah
emergent
alerted
coo
snakes alive
hit a snag
surprising
emergent
alerted
unawares
for heaven's sake
warningly
foreboder
blurtation
whiplash
shake
fortune
jaw-dropper
suddenness
flash
throw someone a curve
sit up
come out with
raise eyebrows
surprise
stun
turn up
jar
crop up
take aback
fray
inject
blitz out
implicate
overtake
spring up
gloppen
startle
bowl a googly
cant
make someone's jaw drop
seize
take by surprise
click
leap to mind
show up
sucker punch
alarm
light upon
bode
blurt out
oh
hit a snag
shake
verb
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
- Occurring very rapidly, almost instantaneously.
- Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
- Having plenty of ready money.
- Liable to show off expensive possessions or money.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
- To show sudden interest or surprise.
- To not go to bed (notionally remaining in a sitting position).
- To sit erect.
- For a young lady to open her house for several successive nights for any visitors who wish to pay their respects.
- To assume a sitting position from a position lying down.
- To bounce, especially to a comfortable height.
verb
- To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
- To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc. upwards.
- To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- To belay or make fast a line on a cleat or pin.
verb
- To shock or surprise.
- To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement.
- To harm or injure by such action.
- To act in disagreement or opposition, to clash, to be at odds with; to interfere; to dispute, to quarrel.
- To quiver or vibrate due to being shaken or struck.
- To (cause something to) give forth a rudely tremulous or quivering sound; to (cause something to) sound discordantly or harshly.
- Of the appearance, form, style, etc., of people and things: to look strangely different; to stand out awkwardly from its surroundings; to be incongruent.
- To preserve (food) in a jar.
noun
- A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.
- The effect of something contradictory or discordant; a clash.
- A jar and its contents; as much as fills such a container; a jarful.
- A quivering or vibrating movement or sensation resulting from something being shaken or struck.
- A glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
- An earthenware container, either with two or no handles, for holding oil, water, wine, etc., or used for burial.
- A sense of alarm or dismay.
- A clashing or discordant set of sounds, particularly with a quivering or vibrating quality.
- A pint glass
verb
- To alarm or frighten (someone or something).
- To force or make (a path, way, etc.) through.
- To rub.
- Often followed by away, off, or out: to frighten or scare (someone or something) away.
- Of a person's mental strength, nerves, temper, etc.: to become exhausted or worn out.
- To assail or attack (someone or something); to drive (someone or something) away by attacking.
- To become unravelled or worn; to unravel.
- To be afraid or frightened; to fear.
- Of a deer: to rub (its antlers or head) against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet from antlers or to mark territory; also, to rub its antlers against (a tree, etc.) for that purpose.
- Of a deer: to rub its antlers against a tree, etc., to remove the velvet or to mark territory.
- To chase (someone or something) away; to disperse.
- To rub or wear away (something); to cause (something made of strands twisted or woven together, such as cloth or rope) to unravel through friction; also, to irritate (something) through chafing or rubbing; to chafe.
- To make an assault or attack; also, to create a disturbance; to brawl, to fight.
noun
noun
verb
- To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
- To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
- To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
- To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
- To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
- To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
noun
- A shock or disturbance.
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
verb
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
intj
- Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
- The sound of a bass drum beating.
- Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- The sound of a cannon firing.
verb
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make something boom.
- To subject to a sonic boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
noun
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- An instance of booming.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- A microphone supported on such a pole.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
verb
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
adj
noun
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A corner (of a building).
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
verb
- To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- To have a seizure.
- To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
noun
- The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
- Destiny, especially favorable.
- A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
- A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
- Good luck.
- A large amount of money.
verb
verb
- To make sense suddenly.
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
intj
noun
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The latch of a door.
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
verb
- To give (someone) notice of approaching danger
- To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.
- To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.
- To call to arms for defense
- To keep in excitement; to disturb.
noun
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- A sudden attack; disturbance.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
phrase
- Said as an expression of unexpected or early farewell.
- Said as a request for an individual's attention.
- Said as a request to pass somebody.
- Sorry, as an apology.
- Said as a request to repeat information.
- Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.
noun
intj
- An expression of surprise.
- Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
- An exclamation to get attention.
- A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.
- A protest or reprimand.
- An informal greeting, similar to hi.
noun
verb
intj
- Expression of surprise.
- A word to precede an added comment or afterthought.
- A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.
- An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.
- Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
- Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.
- Expression of pain. See ouch.
- Expression of mild scepticism.
- A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.
- Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
- Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
noun
intj
- Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
- Indication of sympathy.
- Indication of mouth being opened wide.
- To express understanding.
- Indication of joyful pleasure.
- The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
noun
- Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
- The exclamation aah.
- Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.
verb
adj
- Arising unexpectedly, especially if also calling for immediate reaction.
- Having leaves and flowers above the water.
- Having gameplay that arises from its mechanics, rather than a linear storyline.
- Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.
- Taller than the surrounding vegetation.
- Constituting an emergency.
- Emerging; coming into view or into existence; nascent; new.
noun
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