(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.
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.
cga
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.
dga
ega
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.
fga
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
gca
gda
gha
gha
noun
The letter Ƣ (minuscule: ƣ), formerly used in the Latin orthographies of various (mostly Turkic) languages, and usually representing a voiced velar fricative.
goa
goa
noun
The Tibetan gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.
gra
gsa
gsa
Noun
General Sales Agent. The travel company having such an agreement.
gay-straight alliance: a student-run society for discussion of issues relating to sexual orientation
gta
gta
Proper noun
Grand Theft Auto, a series of video games by Rockstar Games.
Greater Toronto Area, the most populous urban region in Southern Ontario, Canada.
gza
hag
hag
noun
(derogatory) An evil woman.
(derogatory) An ugly old woman.
(obsolete) An appearance of light and fire on a horse's mane or a man's hair.
(uncountable, slang) Sleep paralysis.
A fury; a she-monster.
A hagdon or shearwater; one of various sea birds of the genus Puffinus.
A hagfish; one of various eel-like fish of the family Myxinidae, allied to the lamprey, with a suctorial mouth, labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings.
A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled.
A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard.
The fruit of the hagberry, Prunus padus.
verb
(transitive) To harass; to weary with vexation.
hga
jag
jag
noun
(Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
(Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
(Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
(Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff.: An irritating, inept, or repugnant person.
(botany) A cleft or division.
A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
A fit, spell, outburst.
A flap, a tear in a clothing
A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
A part broken off; a fragment.
A sharp projection.
Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
verb
(Western Pennsylvania) To tease.
To cut unevenly.
lag
lag
adj
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Late.
noun
(Britain, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
(Britain, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
A bird, the greylag.
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
verb
(UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
(UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
lga
mag
mag
noun
(astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
(colloquial) Clipping of magazine.
(colloquial) Clipping of magnet.
(colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer.
(colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.
(colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
verb
(transitive, obsolete, slang) To steal.
nag
nag
noun
(obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.
A repeated complaint or reminder.
A small horse; a pony.
An old, useless horse.
Misspelling of knack.
Someone or something that nags.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)
The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.
To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
a nagging pain in his left knee
nga
pag
pga
rag
rag
noun
(UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
(dated) A person suffering from exhaustion or lack of energy.
(dated) A prank or practical joke.
(in the plural) Tattered clothes.
(nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
(obsolete, US) An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands.
(poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
(singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
(slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
(slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
A ragged edge in metalworking.
A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
verb
(Britain slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
(intransitive) To become tattered.
(intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
(music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
(transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
(transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
sag
sag
noun
Alternative form of saag
The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
verb
(by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
(figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
(informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
(informal, Canada) To pull down someone else's pants.
(transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
tag
tag
noun
(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
(biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
(chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
(computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
(computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
(informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
(music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
(slang) A person's name.
(television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it".
A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
A sheep in its first year.
A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
A small label.
A type of cardboard.
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
verb
(transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
(transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
(transitive) To label (something).
(transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
(transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
(transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
(transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
(transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
(transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)