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aked

aked

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of ake

akee

akee

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of ackee

akel

aker

akey

akre

alek

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.

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.

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.

boke

boke

verb

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

buke

cake

cake

noun

  1. (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
  2. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
  3. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
  4. (slang) Money.
  5. A block of any of various dense materials.
  6. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  7. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
  8. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
  9. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

verb

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.
  2. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
  3. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  4. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

coke

coke

noun

  1. (US, chiefly Southern US, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (any soft drink, regardless of type).
  2. (countable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (a serving of cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).
  3. (informal, slang, uncountable) Cocaine.
  4. (uncountable) Solid residue from roasting coal in a coke oven; used principally as a fuel and in the production of steel and formerly as a domestic fuel.
  5. (uncountable, informal) Alternative letter-case form of Coke (cola-based soft drink, especially Coca-Cola).

verb

  1. (especially automotive, astronautics) To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
  2. (intransitive) To turn into coke.
  3. (transitive) To produce coke from coal.

cuke

cuke

noun

  1. (informal) A cucumber.

cyke

deck

deck

noun

  1. (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
  2. (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
  3. (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
  4. (colloquial) The floor.
  5. (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text.
  6. (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
  7. (obsolete) A heap or store.
  8. (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
  9. (theater) The stage.
  10. A set of slides for a presentation.
  11. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
  12. Short for tape deck.

verb

  1. (card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
  2. (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
  3. (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
  4. (transitive, sometimes with out) To decorate (something).
  5. (transitive, sometimes with out) To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance.
  6. (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.

deek

deek

noun

  1. (Tyneside) A look.

verb

  1. (Tyneside) To look.

deke

deke

noun

  1. (Canada, slang) A quick detour.
  2. (ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
  3. As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.

verb

  1. (Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
  2. (ice hockey) To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.

derk

desk

desk

noun

  1. A department tasked with a particular topic or focus in certain types of businesses, such as newspapers and financial trading firms.
  2. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical profession.
  3. A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
  4. Short for mixing desk.

verb

  1. (transitive) To equip with a desk or desks.
  2. (transitive) To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.

dike

dike

noun

  1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
  2. (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
  3. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
  4. Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.

verb

  1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
  2. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.

doek

doek

noun

  1. (South Africa) A cloth.
  2. (South Africa) A kopdoek: a kerchief or bandanna worn as a head covering.

doke

doke

noun

  1. (UK, dialect) A dimple or dint.

drek

drek

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of dreck

duke

duke

noun

  1. (slang, usually in the plural) A fist.
  2. A grand duke.
  3. A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom.
  4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genera Bassarona and Dophla.
  5. The male ruler of a duchy (female equivalent: duchess).
  6. The sovereign of a small state.

verb

  1. (slang, transitive) To give cash to; to give a tip to.
  2. (transitive, informal) To hit or beat with the fists.

dyke

dyke

noun

  1. (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
  2. (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
  3. (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
  4. (dialect) Any small body of water.
  5. (dialect) Any watercourse.
  6. (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
  7. (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
  8. (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
  9. (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
  10. (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
  11. (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
  12. (obsolete) A city wall.
  13. (obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
  14. (slang, usually derogatory, loosely, offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
  15. (slang, usually derogatory, offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
  16. A beaver's dam.
  17. A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
  18. A raised causeway.
  19. An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
  20. An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.

verb

  1. (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
  2. (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
  3. (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
  4. (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
  5. (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
  6. (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.

edik

efik

eisk

eked

eked

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of eke

eker

eker

noun

  1. One who ekes.

ekes

ekes

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eke

ekka

ekka

noun

  1. (India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.

ekoi

ekoi

Noun

  1. An ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.

ekts

elik

elka

elke

elke

noun

  1. (obsolete) The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).
  2. Obsolete form of elk.

elko

elko

Proper noun

  1. A city in Nevada, USA

elks

elks

noun

  1. plural of elk

enka

enka

noun

  1. (music) A genre of Japanese music that originated in the 1960s and often features melodramatic themes.
  2. (music) A genre of political songs spread by members of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement of Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912).

enki

enki

Proper noun

  1. A god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

erek

erik

erke

esko

esky

esky

noun

  1. (Australia) An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.

etka

eyck

eysk

ezek

fake

fake

adj

  1. (of people) Insincere
  2. Not real; false, fraudulent

noun

  1. (archaic) A trick; a swindle
  2. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
  3. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
  4. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

verb

  1. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  2. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
  3. (music, transitive, intransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
  4. (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
  5. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  6. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

feak

feak

verb

  1. (of birds) To wipe the bill on material in order to clean or hone it.
  2. Alternative form of feague.

feck

feck

noun

  1. (Scotland) The greater or larger part.
  2. Effect, value; vigor.

verb

  1. (Ireland, slang) To steal.
  2. (euphemistic, chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of fuck

ferk

ferk

verb

  1. (UK) To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
  2. Alternative form of firk

fike

fike

noun

  1. (UK dialectal) A sore place on the foot.
  2. (UK dialectal) Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
  3. (obsolete) A fig.
  4. Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
  2. (transitive) To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.

fyke

fyke

noun

  1. (fishing) A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To fish using a fyke.

geck

geck

noun

  1. (archaic, derogatory, poetic) Fool; idiot; imbecile.
  2. Scorn; derision; contempt.

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To jeer; to show contempt for.

geek

geek

noun

  1. (Australia, colloquial) A look.
  2. (colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.
  3. (colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.
  4. (colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.
  5. (dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
  6. (uncountable, colloquial) The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks; geekness.
  7. Have a geek at this.

verb

  1. (Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.
  2. (colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence of drugs or other psycho-active substances, and exhibiting such marked characteristics as hyperactivity, repetitiveness, talkativeness, nervousness, irritability, or paranoia.
  3. (colloquial) To enthusiastically engage in or discuss geek-like interests.

genk

genk

Proper noun

  1. A city in the province of Limburg, Belgium

hake

hake

noun

  1. (Now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.
  2. (Now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
  3. (Now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
  4. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
  5. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

verb

  1. (UK, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.

heck

heck

intj

  1. (euphemistic) Hell.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A door, especially one partly of latticework.
  2. (weaving) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  3. A bend or winding of a stream.
  4. A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  5. A rack for cattle to feed at.
  6. The bolt or latch of a door.

heuk

heuk

noun

  1. Obsolete form of huke.

hike

hike

intj

  1. Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.

noun

  1. (American football) The snap of the ball to start a play.
  2. A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise.
  3. A sharp upward tug to raise something.
  4. An abrupt increase.

verb

  1. (American football) To snap the ball to start a play.
  2. (nautical) To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  3. To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
  4. To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise.
  5. To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.

hoke

hoke

noun

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of hook
  2. Something contrived or artificial.

verb

  1. (Ireland) To scrounge, to grub.
  2. (slang) To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc.

huke

huke

noun

  1. (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.

hyke

hyke

noun

  1. Alternative form of haik
  2. Alternative form of huke

ikey

ikey

adj

  1. (slang, derogatory) ‘Jewish’, seen in a derogatory sense; cunning, supercilious.

noun

  1. (slang, derogatory) A Jew.

ilke

jake

jake

adj

  1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.

noun

  1. (New York, MTE, MLE, slang) police, a federal government officer.
  2. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
  3. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica ginger.
  4. (slang) A police officer, a cop (on foot, rather than in a patrol car).
  5. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.

verb

  1. (transitive) To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.

jerk

jerk

noun

  1. (Canada, US, slang, derogatory) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable.
  2. (Caribbean, Jamaica) A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade.
  3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui.
  4. (Jamaica) a style of cooking in which the main ingredient—which most often is chicken but may also be beef, pork, goat, boar, seafood, or vegetables—is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; the resulting smoke is key to the flavour of the dish. (Compare jerky.)
  5. (US, slang, derogatory) A dull or stupid person.
  6. (obsolete) A soda jerk.
  7. (physics, engineering) The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time.
  8. (weightlifting) A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time.
  9. A quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  10. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the body.

verb

  1. (US, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
  2. (intransitive) To make a sudden uncontrolled movement.
  3. (obsolete) To beat, to hit.
  4. (obsolete) To flout with contempt.
  5. (obsolete) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand.
  6. (transitive) To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake.
  7. (usually transitive, weightlifting) To lift using a jerk.
  8. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun.

joke

joke

noun

  1. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
  2. (figuratively) Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.
  3. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
  4. An amusing story.
  5. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
  2. (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
  3. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

juke

juke

noun

  1. (Southern US) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
  2. (sports) A feint.
  3. (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
  4. Short for jukebox.
  5. The neck of a bird.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
  2. (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer
  3. (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
  4. (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
  5. to hit
  6. to play dance music, or to dance, in a juke
  7. to stab
  8. to thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse

kaes

kale

kale

noun

  1. (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
  2. (dated, slang) Money.
  3. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
  4. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.

kame

kame

noun

  1. (geology) A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

kane

kape

kape

verb

  1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of keep.

kare

kase

kate

kate

noun

  1. (UK, dialect, Kent) The brambling finch, Fringilla montifringilla.

kaye

kean

keap

keas

keas

noun

  1. plural of kea

keat

keat

noun

  1. Misspelling of keet.

keck

keck

noun

  1. (Isle of Man) animal dung
  2. (dialectal) The cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris).

verb

  1. (intransitive) To heave or retch as if to vomit.

keef

keek

keek

noun

  1. A look, especially a quick one; a peek.

verb

  1. To peek; peep.

keel

keel

noun

  1. (Scotland) Red chalk; ruddle.
  2. (aeronautics) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course.
  3. (botany) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and enclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina.
  4. (brewing) A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
  5. (by extension) The rigid bottom part of something else, especially an iceberg.
  6. (nautical) A large beam along the underside of a ship’s hull from bow to stern.
  7. (nautical) A rigid, flat piece of material anchored to the lowest part of the hull of a ship to give it greater control and stability.
  8. (nautical) A type of flat-bottomed boat.
  9. (zoology) The periphery of a whorl extended to form a more or less flattened plate; a prominent spiral ridge.

verb

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To mark with ruddle.
  2. (intransitive, followed by "over") to collapse, to fall
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become cool; cool down.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen.
  6. Pronunciation spelling of kill.
  7. To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
  8. To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

keen

keen

adj

  1. (Britain) Of prices, extremely low as to be competitive.
  2. (US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
  3. (chiefly Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.
  4. (obsolete) Brave, courageous; audacious, bold.
  5. Acrimonious, bitter, piercing.
  6. Acute of mind, having or expressing mental acuteness; penetrating, sharp.
  7. Fierce, intense, vehement.
  8. Having a fine edge or point; sharp.
  9. Of cold, wind, etc.: cutting, penetrating, piercing, sharp.

noun

  1. A prolonged wail for a deceased person.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To utter a keen.
  2. (transitive) To mourn.
  3. (transitive) To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
  4. (transitive, rare) To make cold, to sharpen.

keep

keep

noun

  1. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
  2. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
  3. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
  4. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
  5. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
  6. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

verb

  1. (archaic) To remain in; to be confined to.
  2. (copulative) To remain in a state.
  3. (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
  4. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
  7. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
  8. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
  9. (of living things) To raise; to care for.
  10. (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
  11. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
  12. (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
  13. (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday).
  14. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
  15. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
  16. To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
  17. To continue.
  18. To have habitually in stock for sale.
  19. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
  20. To maintain possession of.
  21. To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
  22. To remain edible or otherwise usable.
  23. To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
  24. To restrain.
  25. To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).

keet

keet

noun

  1. (colloquial) A lorikeet or parakeet.
  2. A guineafowl.
  3. A young guineafowl.

kefs

kegs

kegs

noun

  1. (Northern England) Trousers (pants).
  2. (Northern England) Underpants.
  3. Alternative spelling of kecks
  4. plural of keg

kehr

keid

keil

keir

keir

noun

  1. Alternative form of kier

kela

keld

keld

adj

  1. (obsolete) Having a kell or covering; webbed.

kele

keli

kelk

kelk

noun

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A stroke; a blow.

verb

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat.

kell

kell

noun

  1. (obsolete) The caul.
  2. (obsolete) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
  3. (obsolete, figurative) That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
  4. A kiln.
  5. Alternative spelling of kale (broth)

kelp

kelp

noun

  1. Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
  2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.

kelt

kelt

noun

  1. (Scotland) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
  2. A thin, recently spawned iteroparous salmon.
  3. Pronunciation spelling of kilt.

kemb

kemb

verb

  1. Obsolete form of comb.

kemi

kemp

kemp

adj

  1. (obsolete) Shaggy; rough.

noun

  1. (Scotland, archaic) A contest in work, etc.
  2. (obsolete) A champion; a knight.
  3. (obsolete) Coarse, rough hair, wool, or fur; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To strive or contend in any way; strive for victory.

kend

kenn

keno

keno

noun

  1. A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.

kens

kens

noun

  1. plural of ken

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ken

kent

kent

noun

  1. (Scotland) A pole or pike.
  2. (Scotland) A shepherd's staff.

verb

  1. (Scotland) To propel (a boat) using a pole.
  2. simple past tense and past participle of ken

keon

keos

kepi

kepi

noun

  1. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms.

keps

kept

kept

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of keep

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.

kerf

kerf

noun

  1. (now rare) The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
  2. The distance between diverging saw teeth.
  3. The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
  4. The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
  5. The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.

verb

  1. To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

keri

keri

noun

  1. (Judaism) Alternative form of kere

kerk

kerl

kerl

noun

  1. Alternative form of carl

kern

kern

noun

  1. (archaic or historical) A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt.
  2. (hot metal printing, typography) Any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
  3. (obsolete or Ireland) A boor; a low person.
  4. (obsolete or dialect) A corn; grain; kernel.
  5. (obsolete or dialect) A doll or figurine raised in celebration of a successful harvest; kern-baby.
  6. (obsolete or dialect) The harvest home.
  7. (obsolete or dialect) The last handful or sheaf reaped at the harvest.
  8. (obsolete, UK) An idler; a vagabond.
  9. A churn.
  10. Alternative form of quern

verb

  1. (typography, chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.

kero

kero

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Kerosene.
  2. A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.

kerr

kers

kery

keta

keta

noun

  1. A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.

keto

keto

adj

  1. (informal) Clipping of ketogenic; ketonic.

noun

  1. (organic chemistry) The carbonyl group of a ketone.

ketu

keup

kexy

keys

keys

noun

  1. plural of key

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of key

khem

khet

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).

kief

kiel

kier

kier

noun

  1. A bleaching vat.

kies

kiev

kiev

noun

  1. A dish like chicken Kiev, with substitutes for the chicken, sauces or other components, to fit particular dietary restrictions, such as a veganism.
  2. Alternative form of Kiev; Ellipsis of chicken Kiev.

kike

kike

noun

  1. (US, offensive) A miser; a contemptible, stingy person, particularly a well-endowed one.
  2. (US, offensive, ethnic slur, religious slur) A Jew.

kile

kile

noun

  1. An ulcer; sore.

kine

kine

noun

  1. (archaic or dialectal) plural of cow
  2. (physics) The unit velocity in the CGS system, equal to one centimeter per second.

kipe

kipe

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of kype (“Upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”)
  2. An osier basket used for catching fish.

kite

kite

noun

  1. (Britain, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
  2. (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
  4. (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
  5. (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
  6. (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
  7. (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
  8. (figuratively) A rapacious person.
  9. (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
  10. (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
  11. (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
  12. (sailing, dated) In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding sail or a jib topsail.
  13. (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
  14. A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
  15. A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
  16. A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
  17. A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
  18. Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
  19. Some species in the subfamily Perninae.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
  2. (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
  3. (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
  5. (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
  6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
  7. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
  8. (transitive, intransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
  9. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
  10. (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
  11. (transitive, video games) To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

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