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noun
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- an awkward stupid person
- a compact mass
- a large piece of something without definite shape
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A fat person.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A dull or lazy person.
verb
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
- (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
- (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
noun
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
- (figurative) A rising, as of passion or anger.
- Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
- The state of being swollen.
verb
noun
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
verb
- expand abnormally
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
adj
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a small lump or protuberance
- a small piece
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.
- (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.
- A small knob or lump.
- The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
- (theater) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
verb
noun
- abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
- (uncountable, bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
- (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
verb
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
verb
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
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adj
verb
noun
- (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
- Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
- (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
verb
noun
- a part that bulges deeply
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen (especially a fat one).
- stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
- (anatomy, countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
- (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the hollow inside of something
- a protruding abdomen
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- (colloquial) The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
- An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
- The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
verb
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- swell or protrude outwards
- bulge outward
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
- (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
- (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a lump on the body caused by a blow
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- (US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
- The sound of such a collision.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump their hips together.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (mining) A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- (colloquial) A minor problem or difficulty.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
verb
- to play music at loud volume
- remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
- knock against with force or violence
- dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
- to enjoy some music greatly
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- (criminal slang and US military slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.
- Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- (intransitive) To move while bumping up and down, as a cart or car does on rough ground.
intj
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- A speed bump or speed hump.
- A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A mound of earth.
- (British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
- A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- (slang) A painfully boorish person.
verb
- have sexual intercourse with
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
- (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
- (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
- (vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
- relative importance or fame
- the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- Relative importance.
- (astronomy) A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
- (topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
- The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
adj
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
noun
verb
verb
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
noun
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Any huge body or structure.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
adj
noun
- a sharp protuberance
- a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an unforeseen obstacle
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
verb
- catch on a snag
- get by acting quickly and smartly
- hew jaggedly
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
adj
noun
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make larger or distend
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
noun
- A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
- A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
- (informal) A very enjoyable time.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
- A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
- (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
- A formal dance.
- The globe; the earthly sphere.
- (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
- (in the plural) Courage.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
- (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
- (in the plural) Nonsense.
- (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
- (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ball.
- (originally soccer, countable) a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
- A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
- (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
- (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
- A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- an object with a spherical shape
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a compact mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
intj
- (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
- (sports) An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (slang) To play basketball.
- (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
- (African-American Vernacular) To spend money extravagantly.
- (intransitive) To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
- (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
- (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
noun
- any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
- an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)
- (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus
- (programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
- (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
- (informal, figurative) Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.
- Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
adj
- abnormally large
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- Enormously large.
- (offensive, derogatory) Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- Freakish or grotesque.
- Hideous or frightful.
noun
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- an awkward stupid person
- a compact mass
- a large piece of something without definite shape
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A fat person.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- A group, set, or unit.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A dull or lazy person.
verb
- group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side
- put together indiscriminately
- (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
- (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
noun
- an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
- (figurative) A rising, as of passion or anger.
- Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
- The state of being swollen.
verb
noun
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
verb
- expand abnormally
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
adj
noun
- a small lump or protuberance
- a small piece
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (euphemistic or vulgar slang) The clitoris.
- (computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.
- (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of noob.
- A small knob or lump.
- The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
- (theater) A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
verb
noun
- abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ
- (uncountable, bodybuilding) Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
- (countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
verb
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
verb
noun
- any thickened enlargement
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct.
- Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
- (phonetics) The epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- (colloquial) The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
- An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
- The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
verb
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- swell or protrude outwards
- bulge outward
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
- (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
- (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- an impact (as from a collision)
- a lump on the body caused by a blow
- A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
- A protuberance on a level surface.
- A light blow or jolting collision.
- (US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
- The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
- (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
- The sound of such a collision.
- (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump their hips together.
- (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
- (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
- The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
- In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
- (mining) A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
- (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
- (colloquial) A minor problem or difficulty.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
verb
- to play music at loud volume
- remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied
- knock against with force or violence
- dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward
- to enjoy some music greatly
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- (criminal slang and US military slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.
- (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
- To move up or down by a step; displace.
- (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
- (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
- (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
- (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
- (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
- (card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
- (slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.
- Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
- To knock against or run into with a jolt.
- (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
- (intransitive) To move while bumping up and down, as a cart or car does on rough ground.
intj
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- A speed bump or speed hump.
- A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A mound of earth.
- (British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
- A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- (slang) A painfully boorish person.
verb
- have sexual intercourse with
- round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
- (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
- (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
- (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
- (vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
- relative importance or fame
- the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent
- Relative importance.
- (astronomy) A gaseous projection, often loop-shaped, springing from the surface of the Sun or a star.
- (topography) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
- The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
verb
noun
- a part that bulges deeply
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen (especially a fat one).
- stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
- (anatomy, countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
- (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the hollow inside of something
- a protruding abdomen
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
noun
verb
noun
- a sharp protuberance
- a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an unforeseen obstacle
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
verb
- catch on a snag
- get by acting quickly and smartly
- hew jaggedly
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
noun
- A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
- A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
- (informal) A very enjoyable time.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
- A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
- (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
- A formal dance.
- The globe; the earthly sphere.
- (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
- (in the plural) Courage.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
- (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
- (in the plural) Nonsense.
- (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
- (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ball.
- (originally soccer, countable) a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
- A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
- (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
- (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
- A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- an object with a spherical shape
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a compact mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
intj
- (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
- (sports) An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (slang) To play basketball.
- (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
- (African-American Vernacular) To spend money extravagantly.
- (intransitive) To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
- (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
- (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
noun
- any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
- an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)
- (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus
- (programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
- (pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
- (informal, figurative) Anything unsightly or undesirable; a blemish.
- Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
noun
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
verb
- expand abnormally
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
adj
verb
noun
- a part that bulges deeply
- The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The main curved portion of a knife blade.
- The abdomen (especially a fat one).
- stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
- (anatomy, countable) uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
- (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the hollow inside of something
- a protruding abdomen
- the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
noun
- something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- (colloquial) The outline of the penis visible through clothing.
- An object which is sticking out from a surface; a swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, especially when caused by pressure.
- The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- (figurative) A sudden rise in value or quantity.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
- (nautical) The bilge of a vessel.
verb
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- swell or protrude outwards
- bulge outward
- bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
- (intransitive) To stick out from a surface without breaking it.
- (intransitive) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
- (intransitive) (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly.
verb
- cause to bulge or swell outwards
- stick out or up
- to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet
- (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
- (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
noun
- the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- the property possessed by a large mass
- (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore, or grain.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- Majority, balance.
- (countable) A cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- The major part of something.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- Gist.
- Any huge body or structure.
- Dietary fibre.
- (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
adj
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
adj
noun
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
verb
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make larger or distend
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
adj
- abnormally large
- distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
- shockingly brutal or cruel
- Enormously large.
- (offensive, derogatory) Disabled; crippled. (A severe slur used to describe persons with disabilities.)
- Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
- Freakish or grotesque.
- Hideous or frightful.