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adj

  1. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
  2. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
  3. At or near the rear.
  4. In arrears; overdue.
  5. Moving or operating backward.
  6. Not current.
  7. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.

adv

  1. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
  2. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
  3. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
  4. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
  5. Away from the front or from an edge.
  6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
  7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
  8. In a manner that impedes.
  9. So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
  10. So as to reverse direction and return.
  11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
  12. Towards, into or in the past.

noun

  1. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
  2. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
  3. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
  4. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
  5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
  6. (printing) The inside margin of a page.
  7. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
  8. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
  9. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
  10. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
  11. A ferryboat.
  12. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
  13. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
  14. A support or resource in reserve.
  15. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
  16. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
  17. That which is farthest away from the front.
  18. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
  19. The edge of a book which is bound.
  20. The part of something that goes last.
  21. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
  22. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
  23. The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
  24. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
  25. The spine and associated tissues.

postp

  1. Before now; ago.

verb

  1. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
  2. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
  3. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
  4. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
  5. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
  6. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
  7. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
  8. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
  9. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
  10. (transitive) To support.
  11. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
  12. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
  13. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
  14. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
  15. To row backward with (oars).
  16. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

baka

baka

adj

  1. (anime and manga, fandom slang) Stupid; silly.

noun

  1. (voodoo) An evil spirit in Haitian belief, often in the form of an animal.

bake

bake

noun

  1. (Barbados, sometimes US and UK) A small, flat (or ball-shaped) cake of dough eaten in Barbados and sometimes elsewhere, similar in appearance and ingredients to a pancake but fried (or in some places sometimes roasted).
  2. (US) A social event at which food (such as seafood) is baked, or at which baked food is served.
  3. (especially UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any of various baked dishes resembling casserole.
  4. Any food item that is baked.
  5. The act of cooking food by baking.

verb

  1. (computer graphics, transitive) To fix (lighting, reflections, etc.) as part of the texture of an object to improve rendering performance.
  2. (figurative, with "in" or "into") To incorporate into something greater.
  3. (intransitive) To be warmed to drying and hardening.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be hot.
  5. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
  6. (intransitive, with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven.
  7. (transitive or intransitive or ditransitive, with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven (for someone).
  8. (transitive) To dry by heat.
  9. (transitive, figuratively) To cause to be hot.
  10. (transitive, obsolete) To harden by cold.

baku

balk

balk

noun

  1. (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
  2. (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
  3. (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
  4. (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
  5. (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
  6. (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
  7. (obsolete) An omission.
  8. (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
  9. A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
  10. A sudden and obstinate stop.
  11. Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".

verb

  1. (archaic) To pass over or by.
  2. (obsolete) To miss intentionally; to avoid.
  3. (sports, intransitive) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
  4. To disappoint; to frustrate.
  5. To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
  6. To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
  7. To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
  8. To leave or make balks in.
  9. To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
  10. To refuse suddenly.
  11. To stop short and refuse to go on.
  12. To stop, check, block.

bank

bank

noun

  1. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
  2. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
  3. (computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
  4. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
  5. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
  6. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
  7. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
  8. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
  9. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
  10. (countable, chiefly in combination) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
  11. (gambling, countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
  12. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
  13. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
  14. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  15. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  16. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
  17. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  18. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
  19. (pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
  20. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
  21. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
  22. A bench or seat for judges in court.
  23. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
  24. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
  25. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
  26. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
  27. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc

verb

  1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
  2. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
  3. (rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
  4. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
  5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
  6. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
  7. (transitive) To put into a bank.
  8. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
  9. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
  10. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
  11. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

bark

bark

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
  2. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
  3. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
  4. (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
  5. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
  6. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  7. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
  8. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
  9. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
  10. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  2. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
  3. (transitive) To speak sharply.
  4. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
  5. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
  6. To girdle.
  7. To strip the bark from; to peel.

bask

bask

verb

  1. (figurative) To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in").
  2. To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat.

bauk

beak

beak

noun

  1. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
  2. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
  3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
  4. (farriery) A toe clip.
  5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
  6. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
  7. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
  8. (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
  9. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
  10. (slang, Southern England) cocaine.
  11. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
  12. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
  13. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
  14. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
  15. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
  16. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

verb

  1. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
  2. (transitive) Seize with the beak.
  3. (transitive) Strike with the beak.

beck

beck

noun

  1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
  2. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
  3. A vat.
  4. Obsolete form of beak.

verb

  1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

beek

beek

noun

  1. (informal) Clipping of beekeeper.

beka

beka

noun

  1. an ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel

belk

berk

berk

noun

  1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Synonym of cunt in its various senses, (now especially somewhat endearing) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.

biak

biak

Proper noun

  1. A small island north of New Guinea.
  2. A language spoken on this island and others near it.

bick

bike

bike

noun

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
  2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
  3. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
  4. Clipping of bicycle.
  5. Clipping of motorbike.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To ride a bike.
  2. (intransitive) To travel by bike.
  3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle.

bikh

bikh

noun

  1. A virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite.
  2. The plant itself.

bilk

bilk

noun

  1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
  2. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
  3. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

verb

  1. (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
  2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
  3. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

bink

bink

noun

  1. (UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.

birk

birk

noun

  1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
  2. (Northern England) A birch tree.
  3. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

bisk

bisk

noun

  1. (sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
  2. Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)

bkcy

bkgd

bklr

bkpr

bkpt

blok

boak

boak

verb

  1. (Scotland) To retch or vomit.
  2. (obsolete) To burp.

bock

bock

noun

  1. A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.

boke

boke

verb

  1. (intransitive) To retch or vomit.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.

boko

boko

noun

  1. (dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) The nose.

bolk

bolk

verb

  1. (intransitive) To belch.
  2. (intransitive) To gush out.
  3. (intransitive) To heave.
  4. (intransitive) To vomit; retch.
  5. (transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.

bonk

bonk

noun

  1. (countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", for example, the call of the pobblebonk.
  2. (informal, countable) A bump on the head.
  3. (informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
  4. (informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
  5. (informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.

verb

  1. (informal) To strike or collide with something.
  2. (informal, chiefly UK) To have sexual intercourse.
  3. (informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
  4. (skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.

book

book

noun

  1. (advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
  2. (cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
  3. (chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
  4. (figurative) Any source of instruction.
  5. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
  6. (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
  7. (law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
  8. (poker slang) Four of a kind.
  9. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
  10. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
  11. (theater) The script of a musical or opera.
  12. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
  13. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
  14. (with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
  15. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
  16. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
  17. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
  18. A major division of a long work.

verb

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
  2. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
  4. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
  5. (sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
  6. (transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
  7. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
  8. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
  9. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
  10. To record bets as bookmaker.

bork

bork

noun

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
  2. (informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.

verb

  1. (Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
  2. (intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
  3. (transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
  4. (transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
  5. (vulgar, slang) To boink.

bosk

bosk

noun

  1. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
  2. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.

bouk

bouk

noun

  1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
  2. (UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
  3. (UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.

bowk

bowk

verb

  1. (Tyneside) To belch, to burp.
  2. (UK) To vomit.

brok

bskt

buck

buck

noun

  1. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
  2. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  3. (Scotland) The beech tree.
  4. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  5. (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
  6. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  7. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  8. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  9. (US, slang) One hundred.
  10. (by extension in the US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  11. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
  12. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  13. (dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
  14. (finance) One million dollars.
  15. (informal, rare) A euro.
  16. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  17. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
  18. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
  19. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
  20. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  21. Clipping of buckshot.
  22. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  23. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
  24. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

verb

  1. (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
  2. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
  3. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  4. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
  5. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  7. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  8. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
  9. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  10. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
  11. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
  12. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  13. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  14. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  15. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

buka

buka

noun

  1. (music) The short introduction to a gamelan piece, generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, with the kendhang coming in on the last few notes to set the tempo.
  2. A kangaroo-skin cloak traditionally worn by the Noongar people of southwestern Australia.

buke

bukh

bulk

bulk

adj

  1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
  2. total

noun

  1. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
  2. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
  3. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
  4. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
  5. (obsolete) The body.
  6. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
  7. Any huge body or structure.
  8. Dietary fibre.
  9. Size, specifically, volume.
  10. The major part of something.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
  2. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
  3. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
  4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

bunk

bunk

adj

  1. (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

noun

  1. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  2. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  3. (military) A cot.
  4. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  5. (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
  6. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  7. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

verb

  1. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
  2. (dated) To expel from a school.
  3. (slang) To depart; scram.
  4. To occupy a bunk.
  5. To provide a bunk.

burk

burk

verb

  1. (Southern US, slang, intransitive) To vomit.

busk

busk

noun

  1. (by extension) A corset.
  2. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
  3. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
  3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
  4. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

hdbk

hdbk

adj

  1. Abbreviation of hardback.

kabs

kabs

noun

  1. plural of kab

kalb

karb

kbar

kbar

noun

  1. Abbreviation of kilobar.

kbps

kbps

noun

  1. (computing) Initialism of kilobits per second.

kemb

kemb

verb

  1. Obsolete form of comb.

kerb

kerb

noun

  1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.
  2. A stone ring built to enclose and sometimes revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
  3. Alternative form of curb (“raised margin along the edge of a well, etc.”)

verb

  1. (Britain, transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb.
  2. To take a dog to the kerb for the purpose of evacuating.

kibe

kibe

noun

  1. (rare, archaic, now poetic or dialectal) A chilblain (often ulcerated), especially on the heel of the foot (also afflictive to some animals).

kiby

kiby

adj

  1. Affected with kibes.

knab

knab

verb

  1. (colloquial) To nab or steal.
  2. (obsolete) To seize with the teeth; to gnaw.

knob

knob

noun

  1. (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; dick.
  2. (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
  3. (geography) A prominent rounded hill.
  4. (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
  5. (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
  6. A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
  7. A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
  8. A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
  9. A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
  10. A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
  11. A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
  12. A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
  13. The head of the penis; the glans.

verb

  1. (Britain, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.

knub

knub

noun

  1. A knob; a small lump.
  2. The waste or refuse of silk cocoons.

kobe

kobi

kobo

kobo

noun

  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Nigerian naira.

kobs

kobs

noun

  1. plural of kob

kobu

koby

kolb

kuba

nabk

nabk

noun

  1. Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
  2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.

nkgb

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