taunt
needle
pay out
goon
get at
guy
inch
read
rib
break someone's balls
hulk out
teaser
hit out
laugh
tease
vexer
annoyer
fuck
gig
take the piss
>
yank someone's chain
rag on
make a nuisance of oneself
make fun of
charade
rip into
pouty
backtalk
jest
take the pee
rally
comic relief
get up someone's nose
joke
whip
caper
jibe
ridicule
laugh at
rark up
cut up
jeer
barbarize
fulminate
mock
pappyshow
give curry
barbarise
make game of
rub up the wrong way
teasingly
naughty
let someone have it
prankish
cast something in someone's teeth
ribbing
snap someone's head off
teasy
make a face
ramp
raise someone's hackles
chafe
get someone's back up
hooraw
get someone's dander up
chip
run
get someone's Irish up
retort
play the fool
skimp
jesting
barrack
skit
chaff
heckle
abrasively
push someone's buttons
skin and grin
moue
pelt
mockability
drive someone up the wall
slur
ouch
throw stones
impugn
get bent out of shape
accosting
razz
tickle someone's funny bone
get stuck into
give someone what-for
poke fun
chaffing
ball-bust
pouty
naughty
prankish
teasy
jesting
teasingly
abrasively
teaser
tease
vexer
annoyer
comic relief
ribbing
moue
mockability
accosting
chaffing
taunt
needle
pay out
goon
get at
guy
inch
read
rib
break someone's balls
hulk out
hit out
laugh
fuck
gig
take the piss
yank someone's chain
rag on
make a nuisance of oneself
make fun of
charade
tease
rip into
backtalk
jest
take the pee
rally
get up someone's nose
joke
whip
caper
jibe
ridicule
laugh at
rark up
cut up
jeer
barbarize
fulminate
mock
pappyshow
give curry
barbarise
make game of
rub up the wrong way
let someone have it
cast something in someone's teeth
snap someone's head off
make a face
ramp
raise someone's hackles
chafe
get someone's back up
hooraw
get someone's dander up
chip
run
get someone's Irish up
retort
play the fool
skimp
barrack
skit
chaff
heckle
push someone's buttons
skin and grin
pelt
drive someone up the wall
slur
throw stones
impugn
get bent out of shape
razz
tickle someone's funny bone
get stuck into
give someone what-for
poke fun
ball-bust
verb
- To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
- To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
- To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
noun
- A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
- Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
- A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
- A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
- The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
- Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
verb
- To act like a goon; to act in an intimidating or aggressive way towards opponents.
- To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.
- To enter a trance-like state after masturbating and edging for a long period of time.
noun
- One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.
- A Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer, considered the first Sino-Japanese kanji reading type imported into Japan.
- A fool; someone considered silly, stupid, awkward, or outlandish.
- A member of the comedy web site Something Awful.
- Cheap or inferior cask wine.
- An enforcer or fighter.
- A German guard in a prisoner-of-war camp.
- A wine flagon or cask.
- A thug; a usually muscular henchman with little intelligence.
verb
- To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
- To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
- To play in a comedic manner.
- To equip with a support cable.
noun
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
verb
- to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
- To drive by inches, or small degrees.
- To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
- To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
adj
noun
- A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
- A small island; an islet.
- A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
- Any very short distance.
- A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
- An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
- Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
verb
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
verb
- To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
- To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
- To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
- To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
noun
- A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
- A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
- A teasing joke.
- A stalk of celery.
- A single strand of hair.
- Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
- The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
- Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
- A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
- A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
- Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
- Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
- Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
- Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
verb
- To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
- To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
- To express by, or utter with, laughter.
- To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
noun
noun
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
verb
- annoy persistently
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them
- tear into pieces
- raise the nap of (fabrics)
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- separate the fibers of
- mock or make fun of playfully
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
verb
- To make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- 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 throw, to lob something. (angrily)
- To scold.
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.
adv
intj
verb
- To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
- To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
noun
- A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
symbol
- 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 to quote a person, especially to emphasize what was said and make fun of the person.
- Used for storytelling in short, fragmented statements.
verb
- To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
- To recover strength after a decline in prices.
- To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
- To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
- To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
noun
- A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
- A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
- An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
- A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
- Good-humoured raillery.
- A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
verb
- To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
- To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
- To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
- To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
- To urge into action or obedience.
- To hit with any flexible object.
- To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
- To move very fast.
- To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
- To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
- To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.
- To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
- To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
- To snap back and forth like a whip.
- To hit with a whip.
- To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
- To defeat, as in a contest or game.
noun
- A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
- A whipper-in.
- A blow administered with a whip.
- A coach driver; a coachman.
- The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
- A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
- A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
- The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
- A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
- The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
- A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
- A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
- A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
- A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
- A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
- Whipped cream.
verb
- To engage in playful behaviour.
- To jump as part of a dance.
- To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
noun
- Playful behaviour.
- The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.
- The capercaillie.
- A playful leap or jump.
- A crime, especially an elaborate heist, or a narrative about such a crime.
- A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
- A plant of the genus Capparis.
- A jump while dancing.
- A prank or practical joke.
verb
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
adj
verb
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- To rob violently.
noun
- A scale of values.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron).
- A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- An act of violent robbery.
- An American plant, Allium tricoccum, related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A worthless person.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- A promiscuous man or woman.
- A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
verb
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
verb
- To make fun of.
- To chop or cut into small pieces.
- To become chipped.
- to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- To break small pieces from.
- To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
- to contribute.
- To ante (up).
noun
- A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
- Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A token used in place of cash.
- A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
- A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
verb
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- To say something sharp or witty in answer to a remark or accusation.
- To bend or curve back.
- To throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.
- To heat in a retort.
- To make a remark which reverses an argument upon its originator; to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility.
noun
- A pressure cooker.
- A crematory furnace.
- A sharp or witty reply, or one which turns an argument against its originator; a comeback.
- An airtight vessel in which material is subjected to high temperatures in the chemical industry or as part of an industrial manufacturing process, especially during the smelting and forging of metal.
- A flask with a rounded base and a long neck that is bent down and tapered, used to heat a liquid for distillation.
verb
- To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
- To cheer for or support a team.
- To house military personnel; to quarter.
- To live in barracks.
noun
- A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
- Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
- A police station.
- A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
- A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
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.
verb
- To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult.
- Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at.
- Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down.
- To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something).
- To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin.
- To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles.
- Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower.
- To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
- Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal.
- To bombard (someone or something) with missiles.
noun
- A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag.
- The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification).
- The fur or hair of a living animal.
- The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning.
- Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair.
- A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower.
- An act of moving quickly; a rush.
- Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash.
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
- 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 disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.
- 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).
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