An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
adger
adige
adyge
agade
agend
agend
noun
Obsolete form of agendum.
badge
badge
noun
(Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
(graphical user interface) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
(heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
(nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
(obsolete, thieves' cant) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
(slang) A police officer.
A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
verb
(transitive) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
(transitive) To show a badge to.
(transitive, intransitive) To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
bedog
bedog
verb
(transitive) to follow like a dog, harass, torment; bully
begad
begod
begod
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
bldge
bodge
bodge
adj
(slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.
noun
(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
verb
(Britain, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
budge
budge
adj
(obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
noun
A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
verb
(Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue.
(intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position.
(transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position.
To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs.
cadge
cadge
noun
(falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
verb
(Tyneside) To beg.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
(US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do.
To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
caged
caged
adj
(of eggs) Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.
Confined in a cage.
Resembling a cage.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of cage
debag
debag
verb
(surgery) To perform blepharoplasty to remove eyebags.
(transitive) To remove (something) from a bag.
(transitive, Oxbridge and Southern England, slang, dated) To pull down the trousers of a person quickly and without consent, as a prank.
debug
debug
noun
The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors.
verb
(US) To remove insects from (somewhere), especially lice.
(computer science) To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery.
(electronics) To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere).
defog
defog
verb
(transitive) To remove the moisture or fog from.
(transitive, informal) To make intelligible; to free from confusion.
degas
degas
verb
(transitive) To remove the gas from.
degum
degum
verb
(transitive) To remove gum from.
deign
deign
verb
(intransitive) To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity.
(obsolete) To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice.
(transitive) To condescend to give; to do something.
derog
diego
diego
noun
(slang, ethnic slur) A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.
to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in
dirge
dirge
noun
(informal) A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
verb
To sing dirges
dodge
dodge
adj
(Australia) Dodgy.
noun
(slang) A line of work.
A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
An act of dodging.
verb
(archaic) To go hither and thither.
(photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
(transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
(transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
(transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
(transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.
doges
doges
noun
plural of doge
dogey
dogie
dogie
noun
(US, regional, colloquial) A motherless calf in a range herd of cattle; a calf separated from its cow.
dogue
dregs
dregs
noun
(collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
(figuratively, the dregs) The worst and lowest part of something.
dreng
dreng
noun
(historical, UK) A kind of feudal free tenant with military duties, mentioned in the Domesday Book.
edgar
edged
edged
adj
(followed by with or in a compound adjective) Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.
That has a sharp planar surface.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of edge
edger
edger
noun
A tool that is used to trim the edges of a lawn.
One who practises the sexual technique of edging.
edges
edges
noun
(plural only, African-American Vernacular) The fine hairs at the edge of someone's (usually a black woman's) hairline; baby hairs.
plural of edge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of edge
egadi
egads
egads
intj
Alternative form of egad.
egede
egged
egged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of egg
egide
egrid
engud
fadge
fadge
noun
(Ireland) Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
(New Zealand) A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
(Tyneside) A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
(UK, slang, archaic) A farthing (old coin).
(Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.
verb
(Tyneside) To eat together.
(Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.
(obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
(obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
(obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
fidge
fidge
noun
(obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) A shake; fiddle or similar agitation.
verb
(obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
fodge
fudge
fudge
intj
(colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
(colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
noun
(US) Chocolate fudge.
(chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
(euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
(uncountable, dated) A made-up story.
verb
(dated, transitive, intransitive) To botch or bungle something.
(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
gader
gades
gades
noun
plural of gade
gadge
gadge
noun
Alternative form of gadgie (“man”)
gaged
gaged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gage
gamed
gamed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of game
gaped
gaped
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gape
garde
garde
noun
Obsolete form of guard.
gated
gated
adj
(heraldry) Having a gate of a specified colour.
Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).
Having a gate or other restricted access.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gate
gazed
gazed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gaze
gedds
gedds
noun
plural of gedd
gelds
gelds
noun
plural of geld
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of geld
gelid
gelid
adj
Very cold; icy or frosty.
geode
geode
noun
(geology) A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall.
geoid
geoid
noun
(geography, geodesy) The shape, extending through landmasses (continents, etc.), that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.
gerda
gerda
Proper noun
name occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900.
gerdi
gerdy
getfd
getid
gibed
gibed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gibe
glade
glade
noun
(colloquial) An everglade.
(obsolete) A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
(obsolete) A gleam of light.
A bright surface of ice or snow.
An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
glead
glead
Noun
A live coal.
gleda
glede
glede
noun
A live coal, an ember or molten metallic bead such that skids or slides across a cooler surface.
Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
gleds
gledy
gleed
gleed
noun
Alternative form of glede (“live coal”)
glide
glide
noun
(fencing) An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
(phonology) A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
A bird, the glede or kite.
A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.
The act of gliding.
The joining of two sounds without a break.
verb
(intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
(intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
(transitive) To cause to glide.
glued
glued
verb
simple past tense and past participle of glue
gnide
godel
godet
godet
noun
(obsolete) A drinking cup.
(sewing) A piece of fabric inserted into a garment along a seam or cut to lengthen the free edge, and to make a garment roomier and to add a wavy edge cf. gusset.
(textiles) A roller for guiding synthetic filaments during drawing.
godey
goode
goode
adj
Obsolete spelling of good
gored
gored
adj
(textiles) Having a gore or gores.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gore
grade
grade
noun
(Canada, US, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
(Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
(chiefly Canada, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
(geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
(linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
(mathematics) A gradian.
(medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
(ophthalmology, Philippines) An eyeglass prescription.
(systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
A rating.
A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
The level of the ground.
verb
(Canada, no longer current, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.
(chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
(intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
(linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
(sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
To organize in grades.
greed
greed
noun
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
verb
To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire.
gride
gride
noun
A harsh grating sound.
verb
(obsolete, intransitive, of a weapon or sharp object) To travel through something.
(obsolete, transitive) To pierce (something) with a weapon; to wound, to stab.
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
gryde
gryde
verb
Obsolete form of gride.
gudea
gudes
gudge
gudge
noun
(Ireland) Synonym of gur cake
guide
guide
noun
(military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
(occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
(printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
A sign that guides people; guidepost.
Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
verb
(intransitive) to act as a guide.
to exert control or influence over someone or something.
to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
to supervise the education or training of someone.
guyed
guyed
adj
Fitted to serve as a guy.
Fitted with or attached to a guy.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of guy
gweed
gybed
gybed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gybe
gyred
gyred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gyre
gyved
gyved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of gyve
hedge
hedge
noun
(UK, Ireland, noun adjunct) Used attributively, with figurative indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; third-rate.
(UK, West Country, chiefly Devon and Cornwall) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
(finance) Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
(pragmatics) A non-committal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
verb
(intransitive) To construct or repair a hedge.
(intransitive, finance) To reduce one's exposure to risk.
(transitive) To enclose with a hedge or hedges.
(transitive) To obstruct or surround.
(transitive, finance) To offset the risk associated with.
(transitive, intransitive) To avoid verbal commitment.
hedgy
hedgy
adj
Indecisive, hesitant, noncommittal, unwilling to take a side.
Pertaining to or like a hedge.
hodge
hodge
noun
(obsolete) A rustic; a country person.
judge
judge
noun
(historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
verb
(intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
(intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
(transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
(transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
(transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
(transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
(transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
(transitive, intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
(transitive, intransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
(transitive, obsolete) To award judicially; to adjudge.
(transitive, obsolete) To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
(transitive, obsolete) To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
kedge
kedge
noun
(Yorkshire) A glutton.
(nautical) A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
verb
(intransitive, of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.
(transitive) To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
kedgy
ledge
ledge
noun
(Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.
(Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislature building.
(architecture) A (door or window) lintel.
(architecture) A cornice.
(geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
(slang) A lege; a legend.
A layer or stratum.
A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
verb
(uncommon) To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).
ledgy
ledgy
adj
(climbing) Containing one or more ledges
Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef.
lodge
lodge
noun
(US) A local chapter of a trade union.
(historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
(mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
A collection of objects lodged together.
A den or cave.
A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
verb
(intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
(intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
(intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
(intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
(transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
(transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
(transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
(transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
(transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
(transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
luged
luged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of luge
madge
madge
noun
The barn owl.
The magpie.
maged
midge
midge
noun
(fishing) any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge
any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera
modge
nadge
nidge
nidge
verb
(transitive) To dress the face of (a stone) with a sharp-pointed hammer.
nudge
nudge
noun
(Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.
(behavioral economics) The use of positive reinforcement and indirect suggestions as ways to influence.
A gentle push.
The rotation by one step of a fruit machine reel of the player's choice.
verb
(transitive) To move slightly.
(transitive) To near or come close to something.
(transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.
ogden
ogden
Proper noun
name occasionally transferred from the surname.
A hamlet in borough, West Yorkshire, England
A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada.
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A municipality in Quebec, Canada
A small city in Arkansas
A village in Illinois
A city in Iowa
A city in Kansas
A town in New York
A in North Carolina
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
A city in Utah
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
ogeed
ogeed
adj
(architecture) Having an ogee.
ogled
ogled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ogle
padge
padge
noun
(UK, dialect) The barn owl.
paged
paged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of page
podge
podge
noun
(UK, dialect) A puddle; a plash.
(UK, dialect) porridge
(UK, informal) a fat person
pudge
pudge
noun
Excess body fat.
Something short and fat.
raged
raged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of rage
redig
redig
verb
To dig again.
redug
redug
verb
simple past tense and past participle of redig
ridge
ridge
noun
(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
A chain of hills.
A chain of mountains.
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
verb
(intransitive) To extend in ridges
(transitive) To form into a ridge
rodge
rodge
noun
(UK, dialectal) The grey duck.
rudge
rudge
noun
(UK, dialect) A partridge.
sedge
sedge
noun
(fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.
A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.
Any of certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedge, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
Obsolete spelling of siege
sedgy
sedgy
adj
Of, pertaining to, or covered with sedge.
tedge
tedge
noun
The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured.
toged
toged
adj
(obsolete, rare) togated; dressed in a toga
urged
urged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of urge
wadge
wadge
noun
(Ulster) thick slice of bread
waged
waged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wage
wedge
wedge
noun
(UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
(US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
(colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.
(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
(finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
(meteorology) A wedge tornado.
(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
(obsolete) An ingot.
(obsolete, slang, uncountable) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
(typography, US) A háček.
A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
verb
(computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
(transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
(transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
(transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
(transitive) To shape into a wedge.
(transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
(transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
(transitive, intransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
wedgy
wedgy
adj
Resembling a wedge, especially in shape
wodge
wodge
noun
(chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial) A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad