if I may be so bold
if I may say so
I'll have you know
wait a minute
shagging
pissing
afraid
shall we say
flip
huh
I'm not being funny
you hear me
oh man
snerts
may
more like
not for nothing
what does … mean
just saying
backchat
no
-tard
ugh
sugar
tits
what the
miss the point
oo arr
boom-boom
if you know what I mean
pht
malaprop
the devil
do me a favour
erm
malapropism
now you tell me
chaff
what is it
indirect antonym
understatement
so
cry harder
how do you like
can we say
but hey
chrissakes
oh ar
la
for chrissake
none of your beeswax
what about
me neither
do you mind
womp womp
oh yeah
chrissake
don't get someone started
I said what I said
your mom
Aeolism
misusage
well, well, well
why me
trite
working hard or hardly working
full stop
vellicate
get this
dodging
shamefully
yes-huh
bless someone's heart
sealion
dodge
not to put too fine a point on it
get bent
don't tell me
pardon
yeah, no
scheme
logomachize
what's up with
bitch-out
>
hand waving
reproach
you wish
that does it
slur
on earth
to hell with
tchick
well
do not want
shagging
pissing
afraid
trite
if I may be so bold
if I may say so
shall we say
just saying
the devil
what about
shamefully
yes-huh
on earth
backchat
sugar
malaprop
malapropism
indirect antonym
understatement
Aeolism
misusage
dodging
dodge
scheme
bitch-out
hand waving
reproach
slur
may
miss the point
chaff
vellicate
sealion
logomachize
slur
intj
verb
- To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
- To turn state's evidence; to agree to testify against one's co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
- To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
- To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
- To refinance (a loan), accruing additional fees.
- To throw so as to turn over.
- To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
- To hand over or pass along.
- To go berserk or crazy.
- To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.
- To switch to another task, etc.
noun
- The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
- A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
- A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
- The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
- A slingshot.
- A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
- A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron (a "flip dog").
adj
intj
- Used to express doubt or confusion.
- Used either to belittle the issuer of a statement/question, or sarcastically to indicate utter agreement, and that the statement being responded to is an extreme understatement. The intonation is changed to distinguish between the two meanings - implied dullness for belittlement, and feigned surprise for utter agreement.
- Used to reinforce a question.
- Used to express amusement or subtle surprise.
- Used to create a tag question.
- Used to indicate that one did not hear what was said.
verb
- Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
- Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
- To be able to go.
- To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
- Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
- To gather may, or flowers in general.
- To celebrate May Day.
noun
particle
- Used to show agreement with a negative question.
- Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
- Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
prep
adv
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- not
- Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
intj
noun
- a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval
- a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition
det
noun
- Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
- A term of endearment.
- Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
- A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
- Diabetes.
- Heroin.
- A specific variety of sugar.
- Affection shown by kisses or kissing.
- Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
- Syntactic sugar.
intj
verb
- To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
- To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
- To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.
- To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- To compliment (a person).
- To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
verb
- To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
- To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
- To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
noun
- Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
- Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
- Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
- The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
noun
intj
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
- 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.
adj
- In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- True, accurate.
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.
adv
prep_phrase
noun
- A tendency toward rhetorical embellishments.
- A fictional religion in the works of Jonathan Swift that worships the wind in general, and rhetorical form over substance in particular.
- A reference to or instance of wind; windiness.
- The use of the Aeolic language or its syntactic structures.
- A usage of Aeolic within a work in another language.
noun
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a schematic or preliminary plan
verb
symbol
- Used to quote a person, especially to emphasize what was said and make fun of the person.
- Used to emphasize and make fun of a person's actions.
- Used to emphasize and make fun of (what the speaker assumes is) a person's inner thoughts.
- Used to signify enjoyment or appreciation of something (over everything else), often with many repetitions of the symbol.
- Used for storytelling in short, fragmented statements.
verb
- To insult or slight.
- To run together; to articulate poorly.
- To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly.
- To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
- To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice.
- To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick.
noun
- A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
- In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.
- An insinuation or innuendo.
- An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation.
- A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach.
- A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation.
- The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie).
intj
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
adj
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