(of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
Sideways; obliquely.
verb
(rare, transitive) To look at (someone or something) with a sideways glance.
(rare, transitive) To turn (one's eye or gaze) to the side.
backing
backing
adj
(music) Providing support for the main performer.
noun
(music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
(television, film) A backdrop.
A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
Support, especially financial.
The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
The mounting of a horse or other animal.
verb
present participle of back
backrun
backrun
noun
A reverse flow, either of a fluid or of an anchor chain.
bannack
bannock
bannock
noun
(Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
(especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
becking
becking
verb
present participle of beck
beckman
beckons
beckons
noun
plural of beckon
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beckon
bendick
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
blacken
blacken
verb
(intransitive, ergative) To become black.
(transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
(transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
(transitive, causative) To make dirty.
To defame or sully.
bocking
bocking
noun
A coarse woollen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.
bonnock
botnick
bracken
bracken
noun
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
brecken
bricken
bricken
adj
(archaic) Made of brick.
brocken
buckden
buckeen
buckeen
noun
(Ireland, historical) a poor young man of the lower Anglo-Irish gentry who aspires to the habits and dress of the wealthy.
bucking
bucking
noun
(forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
The liquid used in this process.
The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
present participle of buck
bucklin
buckman
buckner
buckone
cacking
cacking
verb
present participle of cack
calking
calking
noun
Alternative form of caulking
verb
present participle of calk
calkins
calkins
noun
plural of calkin
canakin
canakin
noun
(archaic) A little can or cup.
candock
candock
noun
A kind of horsetail (Equisetum telmateia).
A plant or weed that grows in rivers.
The yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
canikin
canikin
noun
Alternative form of canakin
cankers
cankers
noun
plural of canker
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canker
cankery
cankery
adj
Full of canker.
Like a canker.
Surly; malignant; cantankerous.
cannock
cannock
Proper noun
a town in Staffordshire, England.
carking
carking
adj
(archaic) Wearying, distressing (of care, or similar words).
noun
(archaic) Wearying; distress.
verb
present participle of cark
casking
casking
verb
present participle of cask
catkins
catkins
noun
plural of catkin
catskin
catskin
noun
the skin of a cat, or leather made therefrom
cauking
celinka
chaiken
chetnik
chetnik
noun
(now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
chewink
chewink
noun
A bird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus, the Eastern towhee.
chicken
chicken
adj
(informal) Cowardly.
noun
(UK dialectal or obsolete) plural of chick
(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.
(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.
(countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
(countable, slang) A coward.
(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).
A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
The game of dare.
verb
(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
chignik
chiniks
chinked
chinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chink
chinker
chinker
noun
Any material that is used to fill chinks
chinkle
chinkle
noun
(nautical) A turn or kink in a rope.
(rare) A ringing sound of low volume.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To chink or jingle.
(transitive) To tinkle or cause to tinkle; to produce a continued chinking sound with.
chinook
chinook
noun
(Canada, US, physics, meteorology) The descending, warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains that generally blows from the southwest and can rapidly increase the temperature due to the much warmer air it brings.
The chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
choking
choking
noun
The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breath.
The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
verb
present participle of choke
chunked
chunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of chunk
clanked
clanked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clank
clankum
clarkin
clinked
clinked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clink
clinker
clinker
noun
(in the plural) fetters.
(nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Hardened volcanic lava.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Someone or something that clinks.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
clinkum
clonked
clonked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clonk
clunked
clunked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of clunk
clunker
clunker
noun
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
cocking
cocking
adj
(vulgar) offensive or worthless
noun
(archaic) The hunting of gamecocks.
(obsolete) Cockfighting.
verb
present participle of cock
cockney
cockney
adj
Alternative form of Cockney
noun
(obsolete) An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
codbank
codbank
noun
A region of relatively shallow seawater where cod are fished for
cokeman
cokeman
noun
A worker at a cokeworks.
cokeney
conakry
conakry
Proper noun
The capital of Guinea.
confisk
conkers
conkers
noun
(Britain, games) A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
plural of conker
conking
conking
verb
present participle of conk
conklin
conteck
conteck
noun
(obsolete) contention, heated debate
conteke
convoke
convoke
verb
(transitive) To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
To call together.
cooking
cooking
adj
(informal) In progress, happening.
(of an alcoholic drink) Cheap; better suited for use in recipes than drinking.
Designed for culinary purposes
noun
(countable, rare) An instance of preparing food by using heat.
(uncountable) One's ability to prepare food; cookery.
(uncountable) The cheapest available beer for sale in a public house; cooking bitter or cooking lager.
(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
(uncountable) The style or genre of food preparation.
verb
present participle of cook
cookson
corking
corking
adj
(informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up
noun
The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.
verb
present participle of cork
cowkine
cowskin
cowskin
noun
A whip made of that material.
Leather made from the hide of a cow or similar animal.
craking
craking
verb
present participle of crake
cranked
cranked
adj
Formed with, or having, a bend or crank.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of crank
cranker
cranker
adj
comparative form of crank: more crank
noun
One who operates a crank.
crankle
crankle
noun
A bend, twist or crinkle.
verb
To bend, turn, or wind.
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
crankly
crankum
crinkle
crinkle
noun
A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
The act of crinkling
verb
(intransitive) To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
(transitive, intransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
crinkly
crinkly
adj
Having crinkles; wrinkly.
That crinkles.
noun
(derogatory) An old person.
crinkum
crooken
crooken
verb
(archaic, transitive) To make crooked.
crunkle
crunkle
verb
(UK, obsolete, dialectal) To crumple.
cucking
cucking
verb
present participle of cuck
curnock
cutbank
cutbank
noun
(Canada, US) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.
cutikin
danczyk
dannock
decking
decking
noun
The material from which a deck is made.
verb
present participle of deck
deckman
deckman
noun
A man who works on the deck of a ship.
dickens
dickens
noun
(euphemistic) The devil.
A disturbance or row.
In the phrase the dickens (Used as an intensifier).
dicking
dicking
noun
(slang, vulgar) An act of being sexually penetrated.
verb
present participle of dick
dickman
dickson
dickson
Proper noun
A ghost town in Alaska
A hamlet in Alberta, Canada
A town in Oklahoma
A city in Tennessee
docking
docking
noun
(astronautics) The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
(molecular biology) A method which predicts the preferred orientation of one molecule to a second when bound to each other to form a stable complex.
(nautical) The securing of a vessel to the quayside with cables.
(sexuality, slang) The sex act involving two men co-joined by their penises, with overlapping foreskins.
The process of cutting off or trimming the tail or ears of an animal.
verb
present participle of dock
dockman
dockman
noun
A man who works on a dock.
donnick
donnock
dorneck
dornick
dornick
noun
A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc.
A stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.
dornock
dornock
noun
Alternative form of dornick
drucken
ducking
ducking
adj
(slang, humorous) Euphemistic form of fucking.
noun
(countable) An instance of ducking (a person in water, etc).
(uncountable) The action of the verb to duck.
verb
present participle of duck
duckpin
duckpin
noun
A short, squat form of tenpin.
dunnock
dunnock
noun
A small European and Asian passerine bird, Prunella modularis; the hedge sparrow or hedge warbler.
ecklein
ecklein
noun
(historical) An old measure of capacity.
eckmann
encheck
encloak
eysenck
fackins
fackins
noun
(obsolete) Used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, insistence, etc.
fanback
fanback
noun
(often attributive) A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.
fenwick
finback
finback
noun
A large baleen whale, Balaenoptera physalus, that has a ridge on its back; the fin whale.
(informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
finnack
finnick
flecken
frecken
fucking
fucking
adj
(vulgar) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.
(vulgar) Offensive, annoying or worthless.
adv
(vulgar) Really, very; having intensive force, often applying to the whole sentence or clause.
infix
(vulgar) Alternative spelling of -fucking-, used when the word inflix is put between two words
noun
(vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse, especially one lacking passion or a feeling of sincere love.
(vulgar, figuratively) An act of mistreatment.
verb
present participle of fuck
funduck
gecking
gecking
verb
present participle of geck
gonvick
gundeck
gundeck
noun
Alternative form of gun deck
verb
(naval slang) Synonym of pencil whip (“to falsify records to suggest that work has been done”)
gunlock
gunlock
noun
A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled.
gunrack
gunrack
noun
A rack for storing a gun.
hacking
hacking
adj
Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
noun
(UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
(computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
(computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
(massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
(obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
(obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.
(obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
(obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
(pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
(sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
verb
present participle of hack
hackman
hackman
noun
The driver of a hack
hackmen
hackmen
noun
plural of hackman
hackney
hackney
adj
(figuratively) Much used; trite; mean.
Offered for hire.
noun
(archaic) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.