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caph

chap

chap

noun

  1. (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
  2. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
  3. (Southern US) A child.
  4. (UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
  5. (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
  6. (dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
  7. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
  8. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
  9. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

verb

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
  2. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
  3. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

chip

chip

noun

  1. (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
  2. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, archaic in Canada, especially in the plural) A fried strip of potato of square or rectangular cross-section; a french fry.
  3. (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
  4. (archaic, derogatory) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavour.
  5. (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
  6. (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
  7. (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
  8. (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
  9. (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
  10. (golf) A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
  11. (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
  12. (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
  13. (slang, dated) A sovereign (the coin).
  14. (sports) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
  15. A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
  16. A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
  17. A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
  18. A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.

verb

  1. (UK, transitive, often with "in") to contribute.
  2. (also, to chip at) To make fun of.
  3. (intransitive) To become chipped.
  4. (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
  5. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
  6. (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
  7. (transitive, automotive) to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
  8. (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
  9. (transitive, sports) To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.

chop

chop

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
  2. (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
  4. (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
  5. (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
  6. (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
  7. (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
  8. (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
  9. (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
  10. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
  11. A complete shipment.
  12. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
  13. A license or passport that has been sealed.
  14. A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
  15. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
  16. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
  17. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
  18. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.

verb

  1. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
  2. (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
  3. (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
  4. (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
  5. (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
  6. (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
  7. (obsolete) To twist words.
  8. (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
  9. (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
  10. (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
  11. (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
  12. (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
  13. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
  14. (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
  15. To chap or crack.
  16. To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
  17. To seal a license or passport.

daph

dpnh

efph

epha

epha

noun

  1. (historical units of measure) Alternative spelling of ephah

fpha

halp

halp

verb

  1. (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
  2. (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)

hapi

happ

haps

haps

noun

  1. plural of hap

verb

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

hapu

hapu

noun

  1. (New Zealand) A subtribe of an iwi or Maori tribe; the basic political unit within Māori society; a subtribe or extended family.

harp

harp

noun

  1. (Scotland) A grain sieve.
  2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
  3. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
  4. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
  5. Short for harp seal.

verb

  1. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
  2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument).
  3. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
  4. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

hasp

hasp

noun

  1. A clasp, especially a metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a hook for fastening a door.
  2. A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
  3. Alternative form of hesp (“measure of linen thread”)
  4. An instrument for cutting the surface of grassland; a scarifier.

verb

  1. (transitive) To shut or fasten with a hasp.

heap

heap

adv

  1. (possibly offensive) very; representing broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans

noun

  1. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
  2. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
  3. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
  4. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
  5. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  6. A great number or large quantity of things.
  7. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

verb

  1. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  2. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  3. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

heep

heep

noun

  1. (obsolete) The hip of the dog rose.

help

help

intj

  1. A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

noun

  1. (countable) A study aid.
  2. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
  3. (uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
  4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
  5. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
  6. Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

verb

  1. (Hong Kong) To do something on the behalf of someone.
  2. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
  3. (transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
  4. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
  5. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
  6. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

hemp

hemp

noun

  1. (slang, historical) The gallows.
  2. A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.
  3. Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.

herp

herp

noun

  1. (colloquial) A reptile or amphibian.
  2. (colloquial) Herpes.

hetp

himp

hipe

hipe

noun

  1. (wrestling) A throw in which the wrestler lifts his opponent from the ground, swings him to one side, knocks up his nearer thigh from the back with the knee, and throws him on his back.

verb

  1. (wrestling, transitive, intransitive) To throw (an opponent) using this technique.

hips

hips

noun

  1. plural of hip

verb

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

hnpa

holp

holp

verb

  1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Synonym of help
  2. (archaic) simple past tense of help

hoop

hoop

noun

  1. (Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
  2. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  3. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
  4. (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
  5. (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
  6. (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
  7. (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
  8. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  9. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
  10. A hoop earring.
  11. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
  12. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  13. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  14. The hoopoe.

verb

  1. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  2. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
  3. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  4. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.

hope

hope

noun

  1. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.
  3. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
  4. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  5. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  6. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  7. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  3. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
  4. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

hopi

hops

hops

noun

  1. plural of hop

verb

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

hosp

hosp

noun

  1. Abbreviation of hospital.

hpib

hplt

hppa

hrip

hump

hump

noun

  1. (Britain, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
  2. (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
  3. (slang) A painfully boorish person.
  4. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
  5. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
  6. A mound of earth.
  7. A speed bump or speed hump.
  8. A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

verb

  1. (US, slang, dated) To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.
  2. (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
  3. (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
  4. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
  5. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
  6. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

hupa

hype

hype

adj

  1. (informal) Hyped (“excited”).
  2. (slang) Excellent, cool.

noun

  1. (marketing) Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
  2. (metonymically, slang, dated) A drug addict.
  3. (slang) Short for hypodermic needle.
  4. Alternative form of hipe (“wrestling move”)

verb

  1. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.

hypo

hypo

noun

  1. (informal, in the study of law) A hypothetical case.
  2. (informal, zoology) A hypomelanistic snake.
  3. (obsolete) Melancholy; a fit of hypochondria; a morbid depression.
  4. (photography, informal) Sodium thiosulfate (also called hyposulfite of soda), a photographic fixing agent.
  5. (slang) A hypochondriac.
  6. (slang) A hypodermic syringe or injection.
  7. (slang) A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
  8. (slang, finance, Britain) Hypothecation.

verb

  1. (intransitive, slang) To have a hypoglycaemia attack.
  2. (transitive) To administer a hypodermic injection to.
  3. (transitive, economics) To stimulate or boost (the economy) by the injection of cash, such as with quantitative easing
  4. (transitive, figuratively) To stimulate or boost, as if by administering a hypodermic injection. (Compare hype.)

hyps

hyps

noun

  1. plural of hyp

hypt

ipoh

kaph

kaph

noun

  1. The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

koph

koph

noun

  1. Alternative form of qoph

moph

mpch

msph

neph

neph

noun

  1. (rare, slang) nephrologist
  2. Abbreviation of nephew.

opah

opah

noun

  1. Any of various large, colourful, deep-bodied pelagic fish of the family Lamprididae.

ouph

ouph

noun

  1. Alternative form of auf

paha

pahi

pahi

noun

  1. A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

pahl

paho

pash

pash

noun

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
  3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
  4. (obsolete) The head.
  5. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
  6. Any obsession or passion.
  7. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.

verb

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss.
  2. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
  3. To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.

path

path

noun

  1. (computing) A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
  2. (graph theory) A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  3. (medicine, abbreviation) Pathology.
  4. (paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  5. (rail transport) A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
  6. (topology) A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
  7. A course taken.
  8. A metaphorical course or route; progress.
  9. A method or direction of proceeding.
  10. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.

verb

  1. (computing, intransitive) To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).
  2. (transitive) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).

pech

pech

verb

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.

pegh

peho

pehs

pehs

noun

  1. plural of peh

penh

perh

perh

adv

  1. (usually in scholarly contexts) Abbreviation of perhaps.

phar

phat

phat

adj

  1. (slang) Sexy.
  2. (slang, music) Rich in texture; prominent.
  3. (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) Excellent; cool; very good.

pheb

phew

phew

intj

  1. Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.
  2. Used to show disgust.

phia

phil

phil

noun

  1. Alternative form of phil.

phio

phip

phis

phis

noun

  1. plural of phi

phit

phit

noun

  1. (computing) Abbreviation of physical unit of information transfer.

phiz

phiz

noun

  1. (chiefly Britain, colloquial) The face.

phoh

phoh

intj

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of pho

phon

phon

noun

  1. (acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.

phoo

phoo

intj

  1. An expression of rejection or disgust.

phos

phos

noun

  1. plural of pho

phot

phot

noun

  1. A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).

verb

  1. (informal) to photograph

phox

phut

phut

intj

  1. A representation of the sound resembling the release of a blast of steam or exhaust gas; a representation of the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.

noun

  1. The sound made by a sudden release of steam or gas; the sound of a fast but small puff of wind.

phyl

phys

pich

pish

pish

adj

  1. (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.

intj

  1. Expressing disdain.

noun

  1. A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.

verb

  1. To express contempt.
  2. To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").

pith

pith

adj

  1. The ordinal form of the number pi.

noun

  1. (anatomy) The spinal cord; the marrow.
  2. (botany) The albedo of a citrus fruit.
  3. (botany) The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
  4. (figuratively) Power, strength, might.
  5. (figuratively) The essential or vital part; force; energy; importance.
  6. One divided by pi.
  7. The spongy interior substance of a feather or horn.

verb

  1. (transitive) To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).
  2. (transitive) To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord.

poha

poha

noun

  1. An Indian dish of rice flattened into flakes.
  2. The cape gooseberry.

pooh

pooh

intj

  1. (euphemistic) Alternative form of poo: a minced oath for 'shit'.
  2. Expressing disgust at an unpleasant smell.
  3. Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.

noun

  1. (countable) An instance of saying "pooh".
  2. (countable, chiefly UK, childish) Alternative form of poo: A piece of feces; an act of defecation.
  3. (uncountable, childish) Alternative form of poo: feces.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To say "pooh".
  2. (intransitive, childish) Alternative form of poo: To defecate or dirty something with feces.
  3. (transitive) To say "pooh" to.

posh

posh

adj

  1. (usually offensive, especially in Scotland and Northern England) Snobbish, materialistic, prejudiced, under the illusion that one is better than everyone else.
  2. Associated with the upper classes.
  3. Stylish, elegant, exclusive (expensive).

intj

  1. An exclamation expressing derision.

noun

  1. fragments produced by an impact
  2. slush

verb

  1. (normally in the phrasal verb posh up) To make posh, or posher.

poth

pruh

psha

psha

intj

  1. Dated form of pshaw.

ptah

ptah

Proper noun

  1. A god of creativity and craftsmen, sometimes also identified with gods of death and the birth of the sun.

pugh

pugh

intj

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of pooh: an expression of contempt, disgust, etc.

push

push

noun

  1. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
  2. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
  3. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
  4. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
  5. (slang, UK, obsolete, now chiefly Australia) A particular crowd or throng or people.
  6. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
  7. A great effort (to do something).
  8. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
  9. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
  10. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
  11. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.

verb

  1. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
  2. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
  3. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
  4. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
  5. (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
  6. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
  7. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
  8. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
  9. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
  10. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
  11. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
  12. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
  13. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
  14. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
  15. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
  16. To make a higher bid at an auction.

qoph

qoph

noun

  1. The nineteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

shap

shep

shep

noun

  1. (Lancashire) starling
  2. Pronunciation spelling of ship.

ship

ship

noun

  1. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
  2. (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
  3. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
  4. (computing, mathematics, chiefly in combination) A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
  5. (dated) An aircraft.
  6. (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
  7. (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
  8. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.

verb

  1. (colloquial, with dummy it) Leave, depart, scram.
  2. (fandom slang) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
  3. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
  4. (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
  5. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
  6. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
  7. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
  8. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
  9. (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
  10. (transitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).
  11. (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
  12. (transitive, intransitive) To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
  13. (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.

shop

shop

intj

  1. (dated) Used to attract the services of a shop assistant

noun

  1. (figurative, uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs.
  2. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
  3. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
  4. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
  5. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
  6. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
  7. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
  8. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
  2. (transitive) To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.).
  3. (transitive, Internet slang) To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
  4. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To imprison.
  5. (transitive, slang, chiefly UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.

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soph

soph

noun

  1. (dated) Clipping of sophister (“student advanced beyond first year of residence”).
  2. Clipping of sophomore.

syph

syph

noun

  1. (slang) Syphilis.

toph

toph

noun

  1. (mineralogy) A kind of sandstone.

umph

umph

intj

  1. Alternative form of humph (“sound of doubt or disapproval”)
  2. Alternative form of oof (“sound of loss of air from the body, as when struck”)

whap

whap

intj

  1. The sound of sudden blow or hit.

noun

  1. (Scotland, obsolete) The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.
  2. A blow; a hit; a whop.

verb

  1. (US, intransitive) To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly.
  2. (US, transitive) To strike hard and suddenly.
  3. She whapped down on the floor.

whip

whip

noun

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MTE) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
  2. (UK politics, by extension) The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
  3. (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
  4. (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.
  5. (hunting) A whipper-in.
  6. (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
  7. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
  8. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
  9. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
  10. A blow administered with a whip.
  11. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
  12. A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
  13. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
  14. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
  15. The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
  16. Whipped cream.

verb

  1. (figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
  2. (intransitive) To move very fast.
  3. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
  4. (transitive) To hit with a whip.
  5. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
  6. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
  7. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
  8. (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.
  9. (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.
  10. (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
  11. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
  12. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
  13. (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
  14. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
  15. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
  16. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
  17. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

whop

whop

noun

  1. A blow or strike.

verb

  1. (transitive, informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
  2. (transitive, slang) To administer corporal punishment

whup

whup

verb

  1. (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, dialect) Alternative form of whoop (“to whip, thrash, or defeat”).

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