potchky
tinker
tinkerly
play around
fiddle
tinkling
sclaff
rash
figgle
geek out
tinkler
preen
swallow
bagarap
twiddle
tinkersome
lard
kludge out
tinkerlike
by ear
tingle
dot the i's and cross the t's
fettler
fuss
swiggle
codge
fuck
cook
vamp
congenialize
bullshit
prestraighten
bework
ooch
mechanize
reconcile
trinkly
nantle
fettle
pitch
tat
tew
fooster
flaunch
stack off
combinatorially
rake
rinky-dink
fuze
tinker's cuss
straighten out
wing it
spelk
quilly
-urgy
wallop
shake
quilling
twig
naggle
overtint
keep straight
frame fuck
attend to
tweaker
chinkle
wicker
improvisable
rutch
suss out
mix up
mechanise
tinker's curse
geekiness
contrive
screw with
cleverality
eat an elephant one bite at a time
tinker's toot
tinker's fart
infang
quiffed
nerd out
comboable
intersperse
serve and volley
tosh
straightenable
flecker
spiculate
deepen
play with
haggle
scrattle
wisecracking
tinkerly
tinkersome
tinkerlike
trinkly
rinky-dink
quilly
improvisable
quiffed
comboable
straightenable
wisecracking
combinatorially
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tinkler
fettler
tinker's cuss
quilling
tweaker
wicker
tinker's curse
geekiness
cleverality
tinker's toot
tinker's fart
potchky
tinker
play around
fiddle
sclaff
rash
figgle
geek out
preen
swallow
bagarap
twiddle
lard
kludge out
tingle
dot the i's and cross the t's
fuss
swiggle
codge
fuck
cook
vamp
congenialize
bullshit
prestraighten
bework
ooch
mechanize
reconcile
nantle
fettle
pitch
tat
tew
fooster
flaunch
stack off
rake
fuze
straighten out
wing it
spelk
wallop
shake
twig
naggle
overtint
keep straight
frame fuck
attend to
chinkle
rutch
suss out
mix up
mechanise
contrive
screw with
eat an elephant one bite at a time
infang
nerd out
intersperse
serve and volley
tosh
flecker
spiculate
deepen
play with
haggle
scrattle
verb
- To work as a tinker.
- To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
noun
- A bird, the razor-billed auk.
- A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
- The act of repair or invention.
- Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
- Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
verb
- Synonym of tinker, to make small adjustments or improvements.
- To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
- To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
noun
- Synonym of workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
- A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
- A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
- Synonym of clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.
- Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
verb
- Usually followed by up: to prepare (something) with haste; to cobble together, to improvise.
- Chiefly followed by against, at, or upon: to collide or hit.
- Chiefly followed by away, down, off, out, etc.: to pluck, pull, or rip (something) violently.
- To emit or issue (something) hastily.
- To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- Of rain: to fall heavily.
- To move forcefully, hastily, or suddenly; to dash, to rush.
- To break (something) forcefully; to smash.
adj
noun
- Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a fabric with a smooth texture woven from silk, worsted, or a mixture of the two, intended as an inferior substitute for silk.
- An area of inflamed and irritated skin characterized by reddened spots that may be filled with fluid or pus; also, preceded by a descriptive word (rare or obsolete), an illness characterized by a type of rash.
- An irregular distribution or sprinkling of objects resembling a rash (sense 1).
- An outbreak or surge in problems; a spate, string, or trend.
verb
- To comb; to make orderly.
- To spend time making oneself attractive and admiring one's appearance, e.g. in front of a mirror.
- To trim up, as trees.
- To improve the appearance of; groom; prettify.
- To flatter.
- To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers.
- To show off, posture, or smarm.
- To pin; fasten.
noun
verb
- To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- To retract; to recant.
- To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
- To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
noun
- Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
verb
- Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (“to play with, to tinker”).
- 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.
- 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 make a joke at one's expense; to make fun of in an embarrassing manner.
- To throw, to lob something. (angrily)
- To scold.
noun
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A sexual partner, especially a casual one.
- A highly contemptible person.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
particle
intj
- Expressing surprise.
- Expressing dismay or discontent.
- A semi-voluntary vocalization in place of a gasp.
adv
verb
- To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- To concoct or prepare.
- To play music vigorously.
- To execute by electric chair.
- To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- To be uncomfortably hot.
- To be cooked.
- To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
noun
verb
- To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- To travel by foot; to walk.
- To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- To seduce or exploit someone.
- To turn into a vampire.
- To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
noun
- An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- A vampire.
- A volunteer firefighter.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
verb
verb
- To come up with on the spot; to improvise.
- To have casual conversation with no real point; to shoot the breeze.
- To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.
intj
adj
noun
- Feces produced by a bull.
- Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
- Statements made without regard for their truth value.
- Synonym of shit (in its sense of any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
- Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
- A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations.
- Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
verb
- To progress or change a little bit or in small increments.
- To move in a small or restricted space; squirm or squeeze.
- To quietly force to move without drama or noticeable disruption.
- To exceed a limit by a small amount.
- To move or slide a small amount; scoot; scooch.
- To cry out in pain or discomfort.
- To work toward a goal by using small low-risk steps.
- To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.
noun
- An act of forcing the boat forward by rocking one's body.
- A small, low-risk step toward a goal.
- Something that causes pain or discomfort.
- A small amount by which something has moved or changed.
intj
adj
verb
- To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- To be upset or in a bad mood.
- In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
noun
verb
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
adj
- Tinkling and tinny.
- That rinky-dink shelf is likely to collapse if you fill it with books.
- Of poor quality; shoddy, small-time, or amateurish.
- Crooked; underhanded.
noun
- A tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk.
- An amateur or someone who is underqualified.
- A thingy; a miscellaneous thing or object.
- Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; trickery.
- A small-time crook or conman; someone who operates unethically.
- Something that is not up to acceptable standards.
- A bad deal; the result of a false promise.
noun
verb
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- To wrap up temporarily.
- To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To rush hastily.
- To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
noun
verb
- To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
- To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
- To dance.
- To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
- To threaten to overthrow.
- To disturb emotionally; to shock.
- To be agitated; to lose firmness.
- To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- To shake hands.
- To move from side to side.
- To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance, or disapproval.
noun
- A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
- The act of shaking or being shaken; tremulous or back-and-forth motion.
- A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
- Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
- An adulterant added to cocaine powder.
- A milkshake.
- A fissure in rock or earth.
- A shook of staves and headings.
- A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
- A twitch, a spasm, a tremor.
- Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.)
- One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
- The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.
- A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
- A shock or disturbance.
- In singing, notes (usually high ones) sung vibrato.
- A thin shingle.
noun
verb
verb
- To make ‘tosh’: to tidy, to trim.
- To use a tosh-pan, either to wash, to splash, or to "bath"
- To search for valuables in sewers
noun
- Easy bowling
- Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- Used as a form of address.
- Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- A bath or foot pan
adv
adj
verb
- To become more thorough or extensive.
- To make more thorough or extensive.
- To make deep or deeper
- To make more sound or heavy.
- To become lower in tone
- To make darker or more intense; to darken
- To become deeper
- To become more intimate.
- To make lower in tone
- To become darker or more intense
- To become more sound or heavy.
- To make more intimate.
- To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
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