smeg
piss up
wreck shop
play-play
trash
frig
gorm
botch up
queer up
bog
unmess
booger up
bagarap
mess
shit up
hash
butcher
look like a bomb has hit it
bitch up
donk
hames
mommick
Horlicks
heap
crap up
muck around
firtle
pansy
brick
fossick
bot
monkey
in a state
mullock
moider
bollix
roughen
balls up
havoc
engrail
shit soup
shambles
make a hash of
fuster
slaister
splatty
who shot John
hellbrew
nause up
jungle
gnaw someone's vitals
troublous
bebother
screw up
scuzz up
spoffle
hork
paw
misfuck
mell of a hess
slake
sozzly
mispile
dub
feddle
craphole
begin at the wrong end
messy
flub up
hank
jack up
heaped
gain on
noodle
make a pig's ear of
flusterate
get one's tits in a wringer
uproarious
truck
ventripotent
plunderous
clusterfuck
swamp
tolter
rapine
spulzie
totter
cock up
whew
cack up
muddy
waffle
swamp out
upfuckery
tatter
litter
fall in
smear
splatty
troublous
sozzly
messy
heaped
uproarious
ventripotent
plunderous
hames
mullock
bollix
shit soup
shambles
slaister
who shot John
hellbrew
jungle
mell of a hess
slake
craphole
hank
truck
upfuckery
smeg
piss up
wreck shop
play-play
trash
frig
gorm
botch up
queer up
bog
unmess
booger up
bagarap
mess
shit up
hash
butcher
look like a bomb has hit it
bitch up
donk
mommick
Horlicks
heap
crap up
muck around
firtle
pansy
brick
fossick
bot
monkey
moider
roughen
balls up
havoc
engrail
make a hash of
fuster
nause up
gnaw someone's vitals
bebother
screw up
scuzz up
spoffle
hork
paw
misfuck
mispile
dub
feddle
begin at the wrong end
flub up
jack up
gain on
noodle
make a pig's ear of
flusterate
get one's tits in a wringer
clusterfuck
swamp
tolter
rapine
spulzie
totter
cock up
whew
cack up
muddy
waffle
swamp out
tatter
litter
fall in
smear
verb
- To make into a mess.
- To disrespect someone or something
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- To discard.
- To beat soundly in a game.
noun
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
verb
verb
verb
- To make a mess of something.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To defecate, to void one's bowels.
- To cover or spray with excrement.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To go away.
noun
- The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
- Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
- A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
- An act or instance of defecation.
- A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
- An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
verb
- To belong to a mess.
- To supply with a mess.
- To eat (with others).
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- To take meals with a mess.
- To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- To interfere.
noun
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- A large quantity or number.
- Excrement.
- A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
- A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- A group of iguanas.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
verb
- To make a mess of (something); to ruin.
- To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
- To transform according to a hash function.
- To make a quick, rough version.
noun
- The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- A hash run.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- A stupid fellow.
- One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- A confused mess.
- The result generated by a hash function.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
verb
verb
- To mess around, to play
- To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
- To moisten; dampen
- To hit
- To drizzle
- To make a donk bet.
noun
- A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
- dampness; moistness
- A dense mist or drizzle
- A poor player who makes mistakes.
- A fool.
- A car's engine.
- A donkey (the animal).
- A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
- A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
adj
noun
verb
adv
noun
- A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- A lot, a large amount
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
verb
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To blunder; to screw up.
- To make into bricks.
- To build, line, or form with bricks.
- To hit someone or something with a brick.
- To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.
noun
- A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
- A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
- A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
- The colour brick red.
- An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
- A projectile.
- Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
- A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
- A kilogram of cocaine.
- Something shaped like a brick.
- A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
adj
verb
- To bugger.
- To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
- To use a bot, or automated program.
noun
- The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
- A physical robot.
- A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
- A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
- A supremely unskilled player.
verb
noun
- A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
- A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
- A black, a black person.
- Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- Synonym of five hundred, especially (Britain) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- Synonym of face card.
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noun
- A tangled mess.
- A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.
- Dense rough.
- A style of electronic dance music and precursor of drum and bass.
- A hairy vulva.
- Any uncultivated tract of forest or scrub habitat.
- A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
- An area where hobos camp together.
- A desert region.
- A migrant camp.
adj
adj
verb
verb
adj
verb
verb
- To do something badly.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
noun
- Mess, tangle.
- A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
- A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
- Doubt, difficulty.
- A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
- A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
verb
verb
- To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
- To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
- To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
- To organise something.
- To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
verb
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- To ponder or think about (something).
noun
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
verb
verb
noun
- Dirt or other messiness.
- Social intercourse; dealings, relationships.
- Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books.
- A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage.
- A lorry with a closed or covered carriage.
- The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between.
- The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts].
- The ball on top of a flagpole.
- A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods.
- A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods
- A platform with wheels or casters.
- Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden).
- On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck".
verb
- To engage in commerce; to barter or deal.
- To run over or through a tackler in American football.
- To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down).
- To travel, to proceed.
- To trade, exchange; barter.
- To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with.
- To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate.
- To drive a truck.
- To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle.
- To fight or otherwise physically engage with.
- To convey by truck.
- To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject.
- To persist, to endure.
- To deceive; cheat; defraud.
verb
- To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
noun
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
verb
verb
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To become contaminated or impure.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
adj
- Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Soiled with feces.
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
noun
verb
- To smash (something).
- To speak or write evasively or vaguely.
- Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- To be indecisive about something; to dither, to vacillate, to waver.
- To hold horizontally and rotate (one's hand) back and forth in a gesture of ambivalence or vacillation.
- Of a bird: to move in a side-to-side motion while descending before landing.
- Of a dog: to bark with a high pitch like a puppy, or in muffled manner.
- Often followed by on: to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point; to ramble.
noun
- In full potato waffle: a savoury flat potato cake with the same kind of grid pattern.
- A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
- A flat pastry pressed with a grid pattern, often eaten hot with butter and/or honey or syrup.
- (Often lengthy) speech or writing that is evasive or vague, or pretentious.
- The high-pitched sound made by a young dog; also, a muffled bark.
- A type of fabric woven with a honeycomb texture.
verb
noun
verb
- To make something dirty.
- To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about them, their statements, or their actions.
- To become messy or not clear by being spread.
- To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
- To cause (something) to be messy or not clear by rubbing and spreading it.
- To cause (something) to be a particular colour by covering with a substance.
- To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
- To cover (a surface with a layer of some substance) by rubbing.
- To rub (a body part, etc.) across a surface.
- To write or draw (something) by spreading a substance on a surface.
- (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
- To attempt to remove (a substance) from a surface by rubbing.
noun
- A Pap smear (screening test for cervical cancer).
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement intended to injure a person's reputation.
- Any of various forms of distortion that make a signal harder to see or hear.
- A mark made by smearing.
- A rough glissando in jazz music.
- A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe keeps it in contact
- A preparation to be examined under a microscope, made by spreading a thin layer of a substance (such as blood, bacterial culture) on a slide.
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performing
homeless
to shout at
microsatellite
Sometime
the clergy.
Indo-European
set-back
clip-clop
to concede a point
an upward slope
to check.
To happen again
lead up
to sink (into)
eggs
enchantress
in a bad way
opening game
To betroth
person of letters
hormone therapy
to be on a par with
in logic
Antarctica
hush money
assist
orthogonal
predicate noun
movie theatre
exam
gemstone
to collapse.
Powerful
forest
unbelief
with the exception of
dissolution
quay
not amounting to much
destruction.
hail
rich.
affectionate
unconscious
to try
aspect
early
sharp