boom
wham
could
if anything
as you do
as one does
lo and behold
jeepers
hubba-wha
huh
only
what are the odds
curiouser and curiouser
ay ay ay
unawares
whammo
by jingo
for goodness' sakes
for goodness' sake
what next
bam
freaking gosh
precipitant
whim
you never know
what's up with
would you believe it
my
yipe
what about
my goodness
blitz out
blurt out
it's about time
this is it
accidental
crop up
if you know what I mean
wait for it
leapin' lizards
abrupt
flash
eye-opener
like that
excuse me
unforeseenly
accidentally
sit up
peace for our time
chance
off guard
gold is where you find it
what was someone smoking
tits
emergent
good gravy
oh my gods
cold shower
one
imagine
throw someone a curve
pfft
sweet mother of Jesus
what
shit
the devil you say
might've
brainwave
come out with
what is this I don't even
turn up
abruptly
mislead
light upon
what the
fortuitously
more than one bargained for
footprint
prefiguration
surprise
son of a bitch
ad lib
slap in the face
to think that
spring to mind
chime up
funnily
glimpse
leap to mind
light bulb
bowl a googly
it's a small world
let me see
unlikely
suddenness
wild hair
one moment, please
Lord
precipitant
accidental
abrupt
chance
emergent
ad lib
if anything
only
unawares
what about
unforeseenly
accidentally
abruptly
fortuitously
funnily
whim
eye-opener
peace for our time
cold shower
brainwave
more than one bargained for
footprint
prefiguration
surprise
slap in the face
glimpse
light bulb
unlikely
suddenness
could
blitz out
blurt out
crop up
flash
sit up
imagine
throw someone a curve
might've
come out with
turn up
mislead
light upon
spring to mind
chime up
leap to mind
bowl a googly
wild hair
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.
intj
- Used to express amusement or subtle surprise.
- Used to express doubt or confusion.
- Used to create a tag question.
- Used to indicate that one did not hear what was said.
- Used to reinforce a question.
- 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.
phrase
adj
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
noun
- Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
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.
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
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.
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
noun
- Something unexpected and often unpleasant which makes one take stock or reconsider something; a sudden change or turn of events.
- A chilly or unenthusiastic reaction to something or someone.
- A shower taken by a person in cold water; as taken for therapeutic reasons, or suggested as a remedy to calm sexual excitement.
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.
verb
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.
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.
adj
det
- Used to form exclamations.
- Any ... that; all ... that; whatever.
- Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
- Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'.
- Which; the ... that.
adv
- In what way; to what extent.
- Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions.
noun
- Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
- The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
pron
- That which; those that; the thing(s) that.
- That; which; who.
- Anything that; all that; whatever.
- Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
particle
intj
intj
- Used to show displeasure or surprise.
- Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.
- Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
verb
- To defecate.
- To excrete (something) through the anus.
- To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
- To annoy.
adj
noun
- Stuff, things.
- Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- The act of shitting.
- A problem or difficult situation.
- Rubbish; worthless matter.
- Anything exceptional or remarkable.
- (in negations) Anything.
- Nonsense; bullshit.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A strong rebuke.
- Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
- A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- (the shit) The best of its kind.
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.
noun
verb
phrase
- Used to indicate incredulity; wait a minute; hold on
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, me, see.
- Used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate.
- Used when pondering the results of an action one is doing, or to politely ask for permission to do something
intj
name
- The God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures.
- The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
- God the Father; the Godhead.
- Jesus Christ, God the Son.
- Any other deity particularly important to a religion or a worshipper.
- An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a lord or had worked in a lord's household.
noun
- A generic title used in reference to any peer of the British nobility or any peer below the dignity of duke and (as a courtesy title) for the younger sons of dukes and marquesses (see usage note).
- The elected president of a festival.
- A high priest.
- A formal title of the lesser British nobility, used for a lord of the manor or Lord Proprietor.
- Similar formal and generic titles in other countries.
- An additional title added to denote the dignity of certain high officials, such as the "Lord Mayors" of major cities in the British Commonwealth
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