English words for 'plural of complaining'
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verb
- (transitive) To complain about.
- complain
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
- scurry sideways like a crab
- fish for crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
noun
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
noun
noun
- The act of complaining.
- (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
- A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
- (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based.
- A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
- an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- an expression of grievance or resentment
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow
- (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
verb
- complain
- (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
- (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
- (intransitive, slang) To complain.
- (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
- (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
- (intransitive, slang, Australia) To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.
noun
- meat from an adult domestic bovine
- informal terms for objecting
- cattle that are reared for their meat
- (uncountable) Bovine animals.
- (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
- (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
- (prison slang) A criminal charge.
- (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
adj
verb
noun
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- informal terms for objecting
- an unpleasant difficulty
- female of any member of the dog family
- (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.
- (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
- (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
- (LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner
- (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
verb
noun
verb
noun
- popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
- flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.
- (informal) A cause for complaint; a grumble.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
- complain
- utter a harsh abrupt scream
- (slang, intransitive) To speak out; to protest.
- To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
- (slang, intransitive) To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
- (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in question.)
- (programming, intransitive, informal) To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- the noise of squawking
- (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
- A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird. If made by a bird, it typically signals discomfort or anger; a yell, scream, or call.
- The American night heron.
- (programming, informal) A warning message indicating a possible error.
- (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
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noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
- The act of complaining.
- (law) In criminal law, the preliminary charge or accusation made by one person against another to the appropriate court or officer, usually a magistrate.
- A grievance, problem, difficulty, or concern.
- (law) In a civil action, the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim is based.
- A bodily disorder or disease; the symptom of such a disorder.
- an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- an expression of grievance or resentment
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow
- (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To complain about.
- complain
- (rare) To back out of something.
- (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- (zoology, of sugar gliders) To make a loud, rapid rattling sound when scared, stressed, or agitated.
- (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
- (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
- (intransitive) To complain.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
- scurry sideways like a crab
- fish for crab
- direct (an aircraft) into a crosswind
noun
- (Singapore, military, slang) On an insignia, a coat of arms symbol representing a senior rank.
- (uncountable, aviation) Ellipsis of crab angle.
- (poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
- (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- (informal) Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- Any of various crustacean in the infraorder Anomura, usually excluding squat lobsters.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- (derogatory, Blood slang) A member of the Crips.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- A horseshoe crab.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A bad-tempered person.
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- a quarrelsome grouch
- the edible flesh of any of various crabs
- a louse that infests the pubic region of the human body
- a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply
verb
- complain
- (transitive, slang) To add weight or strength to.
- (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
- (chiefly African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
- (intransitive, slang) To complain.
- (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
- (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.
- (intransitive, slang, Australia) To sing or speak loudly; to cry out.
noun
- meat from an adult domestic bovine
- informal terms for objecting
- cattle that are reared for their meat
- (uncountable) Bovine animals.
- (uncountable) The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
- (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
- (prison slang) A criminal charge.
- (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
adj
verb
noun
- a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked
- informal terms for objecting
- an unpleasant difficulty
- female of any member of the dog family
- (vulgar, offensive, slang) A woman.
- (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
- (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- (slang, vulgar, offensive, often sexist) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- (slang, vulgar, idiomatic, derogatory, misogynistic) A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
- (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
- (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
- (LGBTQ slang, idiomatic, vulgar, chiefly humorous) a sexual partner
- (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
- (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
- (LGBTQ slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
- (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- (vulgar, offensive) A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
verb
noun
verb
noun
- popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
- flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.
- (informal) A cause for complaint; a grumble.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
- complain
- utter a harsh abrupt scream
- (slang, intransitive) To speak out; to protest.
- To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
- (slang, intransitive) To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
- (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in question.)
- (programming, intransitive, informal) To produce a warning message, indicating a possible error.
noun
- informal terms for objecting
- the noise of squawking
- (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
- A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird. If made by a bird, it typically signals discomfort or anger; a yell, scream, or call.
- The American night heron.
- (programming, informal) A warning message indicating a possible error.
- (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency signals.
- (informal) A complaint or objection.
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