off guard
unawares
precipitant
aback
turn up for the book
jinkies
hooly dooly
madly
surprise
raise eyebrows
holy balls
holy crickets
oh my stars
surprising
wide-eyed
jolt
surpriseful
oh my word
fuck
upon my word
I'll be
I'll be bound
holy macaroni
unthought-of
hey
whoa
holy doodle
I'll be damned
crazysauce
holy shamoley
oi
ooh
I'll be danged
holy mackerel
rah
wisha
shut my mouth
mercy me
holy cow
snakes alive
God Almighty
holy Toledo
mercy
unexpected
Jove
surprisingly
out of pocket
I'll be a son of a gun
stroll on
coup de theatre
my sainted uncle
my sainted aunt
unexpectedness
take aback
ehh
astounded
bugger me backwards
surprisingness
unexpectedly
oh
like that
bombshell
heavens above
cor
thunderbolt
thunderclap
ope
countersurprise
come out with
all at once
blow me down
Lord love a duck
what in the world
catch
fuckaduck
startlement
shock
shit fire and save matches
jings
vum
how do you like that
love a duck
blindside
floor
by God
knocked over with a feather
breathtaking
surprisement
hot tamale
blow
cor blimey
fancy that
knock back
great balls of fire
precipitant
surprising
wide-eyed
surpriseful
unthought-of
out of pocket
astounded
knocked over with a feather
breathtaking
unawares
aback
madly
surprisingly
unexpectedly
all at once
turn up for the book
jolt
surprise
unexpected
coup de theatre
unexpectedness
surprisingness
bombshell
thunderbolt
thunderclap
countersurprise
startlement
shock
surprisement
blow
surprise
raise eyebrows
take aback
come out with
catch
blindside
floor
knock back
intj
- Expressing surprise.
- Expressing dismay or discontent.
- A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
particle
noun
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- A highly contemptible person.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
verb
- 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)
- To scold.
adv
phrase
intj
adj
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
intj
noun
- Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
- A blessing; something to be thankful for.
- Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
- Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
- A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
- A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.
verb
adj
prep_phrase
adv
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.
verb
noun
intj
verb
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
noun
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body
- (pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor
- an instance of agitation of the earth's crust
- a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field
- a bushy thick mass (especially hair)
- a sudden jarring impact
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
verb
verb
noun
- The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6.
- A person's weak point.
- A tram/train driver's field of blindness around a tram (trolley/streetcar) or a train; the side areas behind the tram/train driver.
- The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
- A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
verb
- To amaze or greatly surprise.
- To set a lower bound.
- To cover or furnish with a floor.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- To finish or make an end of.
noun
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- A dance floor.
- A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- A storey/story of a building.
- That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
- Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
adj
noun
- an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
- a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
- an impact (as from a collision)
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- a strong current of air
- street names for cocaine
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
verb
- exhale hard
- be blowing or storming
- free of obstruction by blowing air through
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- make a sound as if blown
- shape by blowing
- be inadequate or objectionable
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- spend thoughtlessly; throw away
- spend lavishly or wastefully on
- sound by having air expelled through a tube
- play or sound a wind instrument
- provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- cause air to go in, on, or through
- cause to move by means of an air current
- spout moist air from the blowhole
- leave; informal or rude
- deposit eggs (of insects)
- cause to be revealed and jeopardized
- show off
- allow to regain its breath
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- burst suddenly
phrase
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