(astrology) One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
(countable) A generation.
(countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
(countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
(countable) One of the stages of life.
(countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
(countable) The people who live during a particular period.
(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
(countable) The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
(countable, geology) The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
(countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
(countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
(uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.
(uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
(uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
verb
(intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
(intransitive, informal, of a statement, prediction) To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
(transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
(transitive) To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
(transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.
(transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
agh
agh
intj
An exclamation of mild horror, disgust or frustration
(archaic or dialectal) Nearly gone; dead (used in Devonshire at the turn of the 19th century)
adv
before
postp
Before now.
agr
ags
ags
noun
plural of ag
agt
agu
agy
alg
alg
phrase
(text messaging) Abbreviation of all good.
ang
apg
arg
arg
intj
(informal) Expressing frustration or disappointment.
noun
(heraldry) Abbreviation of argent.
(programming, informal) An argument; a value passed as a parameter.
asg
aug
aug
adj
(music) Clipping of augmented.
noun
(science fiction) Clipping of augmentation.
avg
awg
bag
bag
noun
(LGBT, slang, US, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
(MLE, slang) £1000, a grand.
(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
(baseball) First, second, or third base.
(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
(colloquial) One's preference.
(derogatory) An ugly woman.
(informal) A large number or amount.
(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
(now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
(slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
verb
(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
(nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
(obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
(obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
(slang) To arrest.
(slang) To steal.
(slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
(slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
(transitive) To put into a bag.
(transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
(transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
To hang like an empty bag.
beg
beg
noun
(knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.
The act of begging; an imploring request.
verb
(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
(transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
bge
bge
noun
Abbreviation of beige.
bgp
big
big
adj
(informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
(informal) Fat.
(informal) Important or significant.
(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
(informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
(informal, slang, rare, of somebody's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
(informal, transitive with of) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
(informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
(of a city) Populous.
(of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
(sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
Of great size, large.
Popular.
adv
Hard.
In a boasting manner.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
In a loud manner.
On a large scale, expansively.
You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
noun
(BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
(university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
verb
(intransitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To dwell; have a dwelling.
(reflexive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To locate oneself.
(transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To build; erect; fashion.
(transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To inhabit; occupy.
bkg
bmg
bog
bog
adj
(obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
noun
(Australia and New Zealand, slang) An act or instance of defecation.
(UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
(US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
(figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
(obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
(obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
(originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
(uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
verb
(euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off") To go away.
(figuratively) To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
(figuratively) To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
(intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
(intransitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
(transitive, Britain, informal) To make a mess of something.
(transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
(transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
(transitive, originally vulgar UK, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with excrement.
brg
bug
bug
noun
(UK, obsolete, specifically) A bedbug.
(US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
(broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
(chiefly LGBT, "the bug") HIV.
(chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
(entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
(gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
(gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
(informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
(informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
(informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
(obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
(paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
(petroleum industry, slang, dated) Synonym of oil bug.
(poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
(printing) Synonym of union bug.
(slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
(slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
A semi-automated telegraph key.
A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
(informal, transitive) To annoy.
(transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
bwg
cag
cag
noun
(Britain, informal) Short for cagoule.
(Northern England, Scotland) A keg.
(dialectal) A projecting piece left on a tree or shrub when a branch is severed; knob; stump.
(dialectal) An angular tear or rent in a piece of cloth.
(dialectal) The stump of a broken tooth; a tooth standing alone.
verb
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To vex; to annoy.
cdg
cga
cge
cgi
cgi
Verb
To create visuals using computer-generated imagery; to apply visual effects.
cgm
cgn
cgn
Noun
nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser
childhood gender nonconformity
cgs
cgs
noun
Alternative form of CGS
cgx
chg
chg
noun
Abbreviation of change.
Abbreviation of charge.
cig
cig
noun
(informal) cigarette
cmg
cog
cog
noun
(by extension) A small fishing boat.
(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
(historical) A clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length.
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
A gear; a cogwheel.
A tooth on a gear.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”)
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
verb
(intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
To plagiarize.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
ctg
dag
dag
intj
(US, informal) Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.
noun
(Australia slang, New Zealand, obsolete) An odd or eccentric person; someone who is a bit strange but amusingly so.
(Australia slang, derogatory) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
(chiefly Ireland) Pronunciation spelling of dog.
(graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
(obsolete) A dagger; a poniard.
(obsolete) A kind of large pistol.
A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
A misty shower; dew.
A skewer.
A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
verb
(UK, dialect) To be misty; to drizzle.
(obsolete, or dialectal) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
(transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
(transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
deg
deg
noun
(mathematics, countable) Abbreviation of degree.
(motorsports, uncountable) Clipping of degradation.
verb
(Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
dga
dgp
dig
dig
noun
(UK, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
(US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
(cricket) An innings.
(medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
(music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
(volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
A cutting, sarcastic remark.
A thrust; a poke.
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
The occupation of digging for gold.
verb
(US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(dated slang) To understand.
(dated slang, transitive) To appreciate, or like.
(figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
(mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
(transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
(volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
To thrust; to poke.
dkg
dkg
noun
decagram; Abbreviation of dekagram.; Alternative form of dag; A unit of mass of 10 grammes.
dlg
dog
dog
adj
(slang) Of inferior quality; dogshit.
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.
(cartomancy) The eighteenth Lenormand card.
(derogatory) Someone who is cowardly, worthless, or morally reprehensible.
(film) A flop; a film that performs poorly at the box office.
(informal) Something that performs poorly.
(often attributive) A male dog, wolf, or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen.
(poker slang) Underdog.
(slang) A man, guy, chap.
(slang) A sexually aggressive man.
(slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
(slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet wheel, to restrain the back action.
A hot dog: a frankfurter, wiener, or similar sausage; or a sandwich made from this.
A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
Any member of the family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid.
Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.
One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.
The meat of this animal, eaten as food:
The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.
verb
(intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
(intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
(transitive) To criticize.
(transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
(transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
(transitive, military) To divide (a watch) with a comrade.
(transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
drg
dtg
dug
dug
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of dig (replacing earlier digged)
ecg
eeg
ega
egg
egg
noun
(Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
(New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
(also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
(archaic) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
(architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
(by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
(chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
(computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
(countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
(derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
(derogatory, obsolete) A young person.
(informal, dated) A person; a fellow.
(military, dated) A bomb or mine.
(specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
(transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
verb
(cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
(intransitive) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
(transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
egk
ego
ego
noun
(psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
egp
ekg
ekg
Noun
electrocardiogram
eng
eng
adj
(regional, obsolete) Narrow.
noun
Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink.
erg
erg
noun
(geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.
(rowing, slang) An ergometer.
The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
verb
(rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.
eug
evg
fag
fag
noun
(Britain, dated, colloquial) A chore: an arduous and tiresome task.
(Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
(UK, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
(UK, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
(US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
(US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.
(chiefly US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one.
verb
(intransitive, Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
(intransitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
(intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
(transitive, Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
(transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
fcg
fga
fgb
fgc
fgd
fgn
fgs
fig
fig
noun
(Newfoundland, dated) a raisin (dried grape)
(colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
A small piece of tobacco.
Abbreviation of figure. (diagram or illustration)
The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
The piece of ginger root used in figging.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
verb
(colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
(soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
(transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
fog
fog
noun
(Scotland) Moss.
(UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
(computer graphics) Distance fog.
(photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
(uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
(uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
verb
(intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
(intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
(intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
(intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
(transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
(transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
(transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
(transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
(transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
(transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
(transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
frg
ftg
fug
fug
noun
(figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
(figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
(singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
Something of little value.
verb
To be surrounded by a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
To copulate with.
To create a fug (heavy unpleasant atmosphere).
To damage or destroy.
To put into a fug (daze).
To remain indoors, usually understood as being in a tightly closed room.
Used to express displeasure.
gab
gab
noun
Idle chatter.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
The mouth or gob.
verb
(intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
(transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
gad
gad
intj
An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.
noun
(Northern England, Scotland, derogatory) A greedy and/or stupid person.
(UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod.
(dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
(especially UK, US, dialect) A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose.
(especially mining) A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
(obsolete) A metal bar.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
verb
(intransitive) To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
gae
gag
gag
noun
(archaic) A mouthful that makes one retch or choke.
(figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
(film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
(law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
A joke or other mischievous prank.
Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
verb
(intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
(transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
(transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
(transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
(transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
(transitive, intransitive) To choke; to retch.
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete, slang) To deceive (someone); to con.
(transitive, intransitive, slang, LGBT) To astonish (someone); to be at a loss for words.
gaj
gaj
noun
Alternative form of gadje (“non-Romani person”)
gal
gal
noun
(colloquial) A young woman.
A galileo (unit of acceleration).
Abbreviation of gallon.
gam
gam
noun
(by extension) A social gathering of whalers (whaling ships).
(slang) A person's leg, especially an attractive woman's leg.
Collective noun used to refer to a group of whales, or rarely also of porpoises; a pod.
verb
(US, dialect) To engage in social intercourse anywhere.
(nautical, transitive, intransitive) To pay a social visit on another ship at sea.
gan
gan
noun
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Mouth.
verb
(Northumbria) To go.
(archaic) simple past tense of gin
gao
gap
gap
noun
(Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities with regard to life expectancy, education, health, etc.
(Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will pay to the service provider and the scheduled fee for the item.
(Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
(baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
(genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
A hiatus, a pause in something which is otherwise continuous.
A mountain or hill pass.
A vacancy, deficit, absence, or lack.
A vacant space or time.
Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
An opening allowing passage or entrance.
An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
An opening that implies a breach or defect.
verb
(New Zealand, slang) To leave suddenly.
(transitive) To check the size of a gap.
(transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
(transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
gar
gar
noun
(especially UK, Ireland) A garfish, Belone belone.
(especially US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
verb
(now chiefly UK dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).
gas
gas
adj
(slang) Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
noun
(baseball) A fastball.
(countable) A hob on a gas cooker.
(countable, chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.
(medicine, colloquial) Arterial or venous blood gas.
(slang) A humorous or entertaining event or person.
(slang) Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
(slang, uncountable) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
(uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
(uncountable) Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
(uncountable, Canada, US) Gasoline; a derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
(uncountable, Canada, US, by extension) Ellipsis of gas pedal.
(uncountable, chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
(uncountable, cryptocurrencies) An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
(uncountable, military) Poison gas.
A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
verb
(US) To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
(US) To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
(intransitive) To emit gas.
(intransitive, slang) To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
(transitive) To impregnate with gas.
(transitive) To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
(transitive, slang) To impose upon by talking boastfully.
gat
gat
noun
(New Zealand, slang) A guitar
(archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
(originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.
An opening between sandbanks; a strait.
verb
(Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past tense of get
(slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
gau
gau
noun
(Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry and containing an amulet or similar item.
gav
gaw
gaw
intj
An expletive, expressing disbelief, horror, or disdain
verb
(obsolete) to stare or gape
gay
gay
adj
(Scotland, Northern England, possibly obsolete) Considerable, great, large in number, size, or degree.
(colloquial) Not heterosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
(dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
(dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
(dated) Quick, fast.
(loosely, of a person, especially a man) Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
(loosely, of appearance or behavior) Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.
(obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of any gender), (sometimes particularly) engaged in prostitution.
(of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
(of a person) Possessing sexual and/or romantic attraction towards people one perceives to be the same sex or gender as oneself.
(of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two or more persons perceived to be of the same sex or gender as each other.
(of an animal, by extension) Tending to partner or mate with other individuals of the same sex.
(of an institution or group) Intended for gay people, especially gay men.
(slang, derogatory) Effeminate or flamboyant in behavior.
(slang, derogatory) Used to express dislike: lame, uncool, stupid, burdensome, contemptible, generally bad.
(slang, humorous, with for) Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.
(slang, with for) Homosexually in love with someone.
(strictly) Describing a homosexual man.
adv
(Scotland, Northern England) Considerably, very.
noun
(dialectal, obsolete) Something which is bright or colorful, such as a picture or a flower.
(now chiefly in the plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
(obsolete) An ornament, a knick-knack.
The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.
verb
(transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
(transitive, uncommon) To cause (something, e.g. AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
gaz
gba
gbe
gbg
gbh
gbj
gbm
gbs
gbt
gbz
gca
gcb
gcb
Adjective
germinal center B-cell-like
gcc
gcd
gcd
noun
(mathematics) Initialism of greatest common divisor.
gce
gcf
gci
gcl
gcm
gcr
gcs
gcs
Noun
of, a system used by medical workers to score the severity of a patient being transported by ambulance on a number scale.
gct
gda
gdb
gdb
name
(computing) Initialism of GNU Debugger.
gde
gdp
gdp
Noun
Gross domestic product.
Guanosine diphosphate.
gdr
gds
geb
ged
ged
noun
(Scotland) A greedy person
(UK, dialect) The pike or luce.
gee
gee
intj
(somewhat dated) A general exclamation of surprise or frustration.
A command to a horse, pack animal, etc., which may variously mean “move forward”, “go faster”, or “turn to the right”.
noun
(Ireland, slang) Vagina, vulva.
(US, slang) A guy.
(physics) Abbreviation of gravity; the unit of acceleration equal to that exerted by gravity at the earth's surface.
(slang) Abbreviation of grand; a thousand dollars.
A gee-gee, a horse.
The name of the Latin-script letter G.
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To agree; to harmonize.
(intransitive) Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right.
(transitive) To cause an animal to move in this way.
To suit or fit.
gel
gel
noun
(Britain, slang) A girl.
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.
Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.
verb
(intransitive) To become a gel.
(intransitive) To develop a rapport.
(intransitive, figurative) To come together to form something; to cohere.
(transitive) To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc).
gem
gem
noun
(computing) A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
(figuratively) Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
(obsolete) A gemma or leaf-bud.
(uncountable, printing, uncommon, obsolete) A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
A type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.
Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
verb
(transitive) To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
gen
gen
noun
(birdwatching) Information about the location of a bird.
(chiefly Britain, informal) Information.
(fandom slang) Fan fiction that does not specifically focus on romance or sex.
(informal) A generation (group of people born in a specific range of years).
(informal) A specific version of something in a chronological sequence.
(obsolete, UK, slang) A shilling.
(slang) A generator (device that converts mechanical to electrical energy).
Alternative letter-case form of Gen (“member of the Gen Movement”)
verb
(science fiction) To genetically engineer.
To generate using an automated process, especially a computer program.
geo
geo
noun
(Shetland, Orkney, Caithness) An inlet, gully or cleft in the face of a cliff.
ger
ger
noun
A male convert to Judaism.
A yurt.
ges
ges
noun
plural of ge
get
get
noun
(Britain, regional) A git.
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
(dated) Offspring.
(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Lineage.
verb
(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(euphemistic) To kill.
(imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
(intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
(intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
(intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
(intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
(intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
(now rare) To beget (of a father).
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
(transitive) To cause to do.
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
(transitive) To find as an answer.
(transitive) To getter.
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
(transitive) To measure.
(transitive) To receive.
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
(transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
The letter Ƣ (minuscule: ƣ), formerly used in the Latin orthographies of various (mostly Turkic) languages, and usually representing a voiced velar fricative.
ghi
ghi
noun
Alternative spelling of ghee
ghq
ghz
gib
gib
noun
(New Zealand) plasterboard.
(video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
A castrated male cat or ferret.
A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
A male cat; a tomcat.
verb
(New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
(transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
Pronunciation spelling of give.
To fasten in place with a gib.
gid
gid
noun
A disease caused by coenurosis of the brain, most commonly found in sheep and canids.
gie
gif
gif
noun
Alternative letter-case form of GIF
gig
gig
noun
(Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
(US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
(by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
(chiefly Britain, school slang (Eton College), archaic or dialectal) A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
(fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
(informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
(obsolete) A fanciful impulse; a whim; also, a joke.
(obsolete) A frivolous, playful, or wanton young woman; a giglet or giglot.
(obsolete) A top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.
(road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
(slang, archaic or Britain, dialectal) Fun; frolics.
(slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
verb
(US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
(by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
(film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
(intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
(intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
(music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
(transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
(transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.