A children's game similar to hide and seek in which children who have been "caught" may escape if they see another hider beckon to them.
A sign made without words; a beck.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
(transitive, intransitive) To wave or nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
belock
belock
verb
(archaic, transitive) To lock up or lock in place; hold tight; fasten.
bemock
bemock
verb
(archaic) To ridicule or mock.
(transitive) To cause to appear as if mock or unreal; excel or surpass, as the genuine surpasses the counterfeit.
(transitive) To mock repeatedly; flout.
(transitive, archaic) To make up as something else, to make into an imitation or semblance
bockey
bockey
noun
(US, dialect, archaic, New York) A large basket woven from oak splints.
choked
choked
adj
(figurative) Blocked or obstructed by thick material, often plant growth.
Having been unable to breathe due to airway obstruction (choking) or strangulation, but usually to the point of pain and discomfort without death.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of choke
choker
choker
noun
(slang) Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
A loop of cable fastened around a log to haul it.
A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.
One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.
One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
chokes
chokes
noun
plural of choke
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of choke
chokey
chokey
adj
Reminiscent of choking.
noun
(India, historical) A station, as for collection of customs, for palanquin bearers, police, etc.
(dated, Britain) prison
cocked
cocked
adj
(firearms) Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
(informal) Drunk.
(vulgar, in combination) Having a specified form of penis or a specific number of penises.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cock
cocker
cocker
noun
(UK, informal) Friend, mate.
(colloquial) A cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of dogs originally bred for hunting woodcocks.
(dated) One who hunts woodcocks.
(obsolete) A quiver.
A device that aids in cocking a crossbow.
A rustic high shoe; half-boot.
One who breeds gamecocks or engages in the sport of cockfighting.
verb
To make a nestle-cock of; to indulge or pamper (particularly of children).
cocket
cocket
adj
(obsolete) pert; saucy
noun
(UK, obsolete) A document issued by the bond office stating that duty has been paid and goods may be sold.
(UK, obsolete) An office in a customhouse where goods intended for export are entered.
cockie
cockie
adj
(rare) Alternative spelling of cocky
cockle
cockle
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
(mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
The shell of such a mollusk.
verb
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
cokers
cokers
noun
plural of coker
cokery
cokery
noun
An industrial plant for processing coke.
comake
conked
conked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conk
conker
conker
noun
(Britain) A horse chestnut, used in the game of conkers.
Alternative form of kankar
contek
cooked
cooked
adj
(computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
(of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
(slang) Done in, defeated, hopeless.
(slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
(slang, derogatory, Australia, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.
(slang, especially Australia) inebriated: drunk, high, stoned; or hungover.
Of food, that has been prepared by cooking.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cook
cookee
cookee
noun
(archaic) A female cook.
A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.
cooker
cooker
noun
(chiefly Britain, Ireland) A device for heating food, a stove.
(chiefly Britain, Ireland, except in compounds) An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
(slang, Australia) A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
(slang, derogatory, Australia) A person who is cooked; a crazy person.
A cooking apple.
cookey
cookey
noun
Alternative form of cookie
cookie
cookie
noun
(Canada, US) A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.
(Scotland) A bun.
(UK, Commonwealth) A sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.
(computing) A magic cookie.
(computing, Internet) An HTTP cookie.
(dated, colloquial) Affectionate name for a cook.
(informal) Clipping of fortune cookie.
(informal, in the plural) One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
(slang) A cucoloris.
(slang, dated) An attractive young woman.
(slang, drugs) A piece of crack cocaine, larger than a rock, and often in the shape of a cookie.
verb
(computing, transitive) To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).
copake
copeck
copeck
noun
Alternative spelling of kopek
corked
corked
adj
Blackened by burnt cork.
Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cork
corker
corker
noun
(informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
One who puts corks into bottles.
croker
croker
noun
(US) Burlap.
(obsolete) A cultivator of crocus or saffron; a dealer in saffron.
crouke
decoke
decoke
noun
(informal) decarbonization.
verb
(informal, transitive) To decarbonize, especially to remove the build-up of carbon in the cylinder of an engine or the bowl or a pipe.
docked
docked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dock
docken
docker
docker
noun
A dockworker.
One who engages in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
One who performs docking, as of tails.
docket
docket
noun
(Australia) A receipt.
(law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
(law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
An agenda of things to be done.
verb
(transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
(transitive) To label a parcel, etc.
(transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
(transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
doneck
earock
edrock
eerock
enlock
enlock
verb
(transitive, archaic) To enclose.
(transitive, archaic) To lock up.
fockle
geckos
geckos
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gecko
hocked
hocked
adj
(in combination) Having a specified kind of hock.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of hock
hocker
hocker
noun
(slang) A wad of phlegm spat out by hocking.
hocket
hocket
noun
(music) In medieval music, a rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords. A single melody is shared between two (or occasionally more) voices such that alternately one voice sounds while the other rests.
hockey
hockey
noun
(Canada, US) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
(Commonwealth) Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
(US, slang) Faeces, excrement.
(darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.
A variation of hockey, such as roller hockey, street hockey, shinny, or ball hockey.
hockle
hockle
noun
(Tyneside, vulgar) spit, spittle
A knob in cordage caused by twisting against the lay.
verb
(Tyneside) To spit.
(transitive) To mow, as stubble.
(transitive) to disable by cutting the tendons of the ham.
To damage cordage by twisting against the lay.
jocker
jocker
noun
(slang) A man who perceives himself as straight and is the aggressive top in a relationship between two men, especially in prison.
jockey
jockey
noun
(Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
(dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
One who rides racehorses competitively.
That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
The selling of an unsound horse for a sound price is regarded by a Yorkshire jockey
verb
To cheat or trick.
To jostle by riding against.
To maneuver (something) by skill for one's advantage.
To ride (a horse) in a race.
kocher
kopeck
koreci
korzec
korzec
noun
An old Polish dry measure, a bushel: in the early 19th century, it was 128 litres in Warsaw and 501.116 litres in Kraków.
kosice
locked
locked
adj
(Ireland) Very drunk.
(mobile telephony, of a phone) Bound to a carrier.
Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of lock
locker
locker
noun
(automotive) A locking differential.
(historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
(rare) One who locks something.
A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store personal possessions for public use, such as in schools, railway stations, place of work, gyms, sports centers.
locket
locket
noun
(archaic) The upper metallic cap of a sword’s scabbard.
A pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item.
A small white marking on a cat's coat.
lockie
lokiec
mckeon
mocked
mocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of mock
mocker
mocker
noun
(archaic) A deceiver; an impostor.
A mockingbird.
A person who mocks.
nocake
nocake
noun
Indian corn parched and pounded into meal (powder), used as food by Native Americans, sometimes mixed with maple sugar.
nocked
nocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of nock
nocket
ockers
ockers
noun
plural of ocker
pocked
pocked
adj
pockmarked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pock
pocket
pocket
adj
(Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
Smaller or more compact than usual.
noun
(American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
(Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
(Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
(architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
(bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
(dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
(military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
(mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
(nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
(rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
(sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
(surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
A bight on a lee shore.
A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
A small, isolated group or area.
A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
The pouch of an animal.
verb
(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
(transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
(transitive, informal) To take and keep (something, especially money, that is not one's own).
(transitive, informal, dated) To put up with; to bear without complaint.
reckon
reckon
noun
(dialectal) Alternative form of rackan (“chain”)
verb
(colloquial) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause
(intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host
recock
recock
verb
(transitive) To cock (a firearm) again.
recoke
recook
recook
verb
cook again
recork
recork
verb
(transitive) To replace a cork in (a bottle).
redock
redock
verb
To dock again.
relock
relock
verb
To lock again.
remock
rocked
rocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rock
rockel
rockel
noun
(UK, dialect, archaic) A woman's cloak.
rocker
rocker
noun
(UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
(engineering) A rock shaft.
(informal) A rock music song.
(military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
(surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
A musician who plays rock music.
A rocker board.
A rocking chair.
A rocking horse.
A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
One who rocks something.
Someone passionate about rock music.
The breve below as in ḫ.
rocket
rocket
noun
(Scotland, slang) A stupid or crazy person.
(South East England, slang) A very physically attractive woman.
(figurative) Something that shoots high in the air.
(military slang) An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.
(military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.
A blunt lance head used in jousting.
A rocket propelled firework; a skyrocket.
A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.
Rocket larkspur (Consolida regalis).
The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.
To attack something with rockets.
To carry something in a rocket.
To fly vertically.
To rise or soar rapidly.
rockey
rockie
rockne
socked
socked
adj
Wearing a sock or socks.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sock
socker
socker
noun
Dated spelling of soccer.
socket
socket
noun
(anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
(computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
(computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
(mechanics) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
The hollow of a candlestick.
verb
To place or fit in a socket.
yocked
yocked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of yock
yockel
yockel
noun
(rare, UK, dialect) The yaffle or green woodpecker, Picus viridis.