(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
verb
(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
pocks
pocks
noun
plural of pock
pocky
pocky
adj
Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
poock
prick
prick
noun
(UK, Australia, US, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
(now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
(obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
(slang, vulgar) The penis.
A feeling of remorse.
A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
A small pointed object.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
The footprint of a hare.
verb
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
(intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
(intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
(intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
(obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.
(transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
(transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
(transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
(transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
(transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
(transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
To aim at a point or mark.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
pucka
pucka
adj
Alternative form of pukka.
pucks
pucks
noun
(Ireland, informal) Plenty; an abundance (of something).
plural of puck
spack
spack
noun
(Britain slang, derogatory, offensive) A clumsy, foolish, or mentally deficient person.
speck
speck
noun
(uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
Fat; lard; fat meat.
The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
The fat of the hippopotamus.
verb
(transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
spick
spick
adj
tidy; fresh
noun
(obsolete) nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener).