you know what they say
as the saying goes
aptonymy
aptronymic
one
-ass
vernacularism
so
hypocorism
pet name
ass
see
oo arr
not forgetting
opposite
that is
which
more like
subject
definitional
give someone the boot
a-word
you know what
cyberslang
-like
netslang
mine
as the man says
paleologism
exudence
this is not a drill
great
idionym
lady
axiomization
adagial
anyway
lolspeak
ba-dum ching
alright
ooer
ask for it
oo-er
hell
as well as
don't mind if I do
slangy
idiolectic
if you know what I mean
obsoletism
adage
what does … mean
simplistically
what about
why
catchphrase
squishy
that's what's up
catch phrase
ekphratic
slangitis
there again
cabbage
ekphrasic
signpost
suffixation
preposed
harbinger
-ably
suppositio materialis
vernacularity
homological
substantively
no
give notice
OK
officially known as
correct
multiphrasal
of
-ers
-er
prepositional verb
bleep
implicature
mood
backronymy
rubbish
counterterm
big mood
remarkably
what do you say
yeah
abbreviationitis
aptronymous
acronymitis
in order that
interphrasally
aptronymic
definitional
great
adagial
slangy
idiolectic
squishy
ekphratic
ekphrasic
preposed
homological
multiphrasal
aptronymous
that is
anyway
simplistically
what about
why
there again
substantively
no
officially known as
remarkably
interphrasally
aptonymy
vernacularism
hypocorism
pet name
opposite
subject
a-word
cyberslang
netslang
paleologism
exudence
idionym
lady
axiomization
lolspeak
obsoletism
adage
catchphrase
catch phrase
slangitis
cabbage
signpost
suffixation
suppositio materialis
vernacularity
prepositional verb
bleep
implicature
backronymy
counterterm
abbreviationitis
acronymitis
see
give someone the boot
ask for it
harbinger
give notice
particle
- Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
- A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
noun
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- A one-dollar bill.
- Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- The digit or figure 1.
num
- The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
verb
adj
- Whole, entire.
- Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
- The same.
- In agreement.
- Being a preeminent example.
- Sole, only.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
pron
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- Any person, entity or thing.
- Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner.
conj
- Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
- Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
- With the result that; for that reason; therefore.
noun
- A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
intj
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
- Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
adv
- To the (explicitly stated) extent that.
- To such an extent or degree; as.
- Very much.
- Very (negative clause).
- In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; also.
- Very (positive clause).
- To the (implied) extent.
- In a particular manner.
adj
particle
noun
- The anus.
- A stupid person.
- Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.
- Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
- A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.
- The buttocks.
- Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
adj
verb
- Used to emphasise a proposition.
- To date frequently.
- To be the setting or time of.
- To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- To reference or to study for further details.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- To understand.
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To wait upon; attend, escort.
- To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
noun
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
- a diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
- The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric
intj
noun
- An antonym.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- An additive inverse.
prep
adv
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
noun
- That of which something is stated.
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
verb
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
adj
pron
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Used predicatively.
- Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
noun
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
verb
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
adj
- Intensifying a word or expression, used in mild oaths.
- Title referring to an important leader.
- Relatively large in scale, size, extent, number (i.e. having many parts or members) or duration (i.e. relatively long); very big.
- Of significant importance or consequence; important.
- Impressive or striking.
- Doing or exemplifying (a characteristic or pursuit) on a large scale; active or enthusiastic.
- Much in use; favoured.
- Skilful or adroit.
- Of larger size or more importance than others of its kind.
- Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; superior; commanding; heroic; illustrious; eminent.
- Very good; excellent; wonderful; fantastic.
- Endowed with extraordinary powers; of exceptional talents or achievements; uncommonly gifted; able to accomplish vast results; remarkable; strong; powerful; mighty; noble.
- Involving more generations than the qualified word implies — as many extra generations as repetitions of the word great (from 1510s).
- Extreme or more than usual.
intj
noun
- A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.
- The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.
- An instance of the word "great" signifying an additional generation in phrases expressing family relationships.
adv
noun
- Used to address a female.
- A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
- A woman’s breast.
- A polite reference or form of address to women.
- A woman: an adult female human.
- A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
- A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness.
- A queen (the playing card).
- A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
- A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
- The mistress of a household.
- The feminine of lord.
- Toilets intended for use by women.
- Who is a woman.
- A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
- A queen.
verb
adv
- Used to indicate a change of subject.
- Used at the end of a question for emphasis, or to direct the conversation to something of more broad importance (compare with more to the point).
- Regardless; anyhow.
- Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. See anyhow and at least.
intj
- Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
- Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
- Used to emphasize.
adv
noun
- A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- A place for gambling.
- An extremely hot place.
- Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
verb
name
noun
- Used as a term of endearment.
- A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- Leftover scraps of fabric.
- The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- Money.
verb
adv
- Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- not
noun
- a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval
- a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition
intj
det
- Not any.
- Hardly any.
- Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
- Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
prep
particle
intj
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
verb
noun
name
adj
- All right, acceptable, permitted.
- In good health or a good emotional state.
- Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
- Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
adv
prep
- Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.
- Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.
- Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.
- Indicates a quality or characteristic; "characterized by".
- Often used without the hour
- Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).
- Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.
- Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.
- Introduces its subject matter; about, concerning.
- Indicates a given part.
- Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-matter; concerning, with regard to.
- Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
- Used to indicate the material or substance used.
- Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.}}
- Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.
- Denotes the number of minutes before the hour;Before (the hour); to.
- During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
- From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
- Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation; from, out of, as an expression of.
- Indicates the source or cause of the verb.
- Introducing an epithet that indicates a birthplace, residence, dominion, or other place associated with the individual.
- Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).
- Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second; "which is also".
- Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment; "from among".
- Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
- Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this intersects with the subjective genitive, above under "agency" senses.)
- Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.
- Forming the "objective genitive".
- Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.
- Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.
- Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.
- Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives modified by certain common adverbs of degree.
- Introduces its subject matter.
- For (a given length of time).
- Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase (see also 'Possession' senses below).}}
suffix
- Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words.
- Used to form nouns shorter than more formal synonyms.
- A thing that is related in some way to the root, such as by location or purpose.
- Used to form diminutives.
- A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
- A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
- More; used to form the comparative.
- Person or thing connected with.
- Suffix denoting residency in or around a place, district, area, or region.
- A person who is associated with, or supports a particular theory, doctrine, or political movement.
- A suffix creating adjectives from verbs, indicating aptitude, proneness, or tendency toward a specified action
- Junior, child, younger person. (Attached to a name, usually a portion of the given name.)
- Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun); used to form a demonym.
- Frequently; used to form frequentative verbs.
- Instance of (the verbal action); used to form nouns from verbs.
- A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.
- A person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies.
intj
noun
- A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.
- Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
- A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- A mental or emotional state, composure.
- A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.
- A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.
- A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
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Of or relating to such plants
A spider
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a rootlet.
comforting
to pay one's respects
To smother
-looking
to wolf down
to brown.
pawned article
inexcusable.
thirty
to tilt.
herbivorous
inseparability
great efforts
boarding bridge
growth.
exchanging looks
bastardly
to sharpen.
so then
downward trend
manufactured article
Tursiops truncatus.
nail
blister beetle
To apply
ready-made clothing
things that do not exist
central.
amiability
water shortage
flight attendant
to keep going
bracelet
cylindrical
dandyism
dotage
to drift
studio apartment
facsimile
cooperative
to agitate
to be in order
under one's nose
wow!
rapid