(music) A style of urban popular music associated mainly with Kuwait and Bahrain.
staw
staw
verb
(UK, dialect, intransitive) To be fixed or set; to stay.
swat
swat
noun
A hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
Alternate spelling of swot: vigorous study at an educational institution.
verb
(US, slang, transitive) To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone).
(transitive) To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.
tawa
tawa
noun
(South Asia) A frying pan or griddle.
Beilschmiedia tawa, a New Zealand broadleaf tree.
tawn
tawn
name
(Bermuda, colloquial, uncountable) Hamilton (the capital city of Bermuda).
noun
(Bermuda, countable) Pronunciation spelling of town.
(rare) A tan.
verb
(transitive) To tan, make tawny.
taws
taws
noun
Alternative spelling of tawse
plural of taw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of taw
tewa
thaw
thaw
noun
(figurative) a period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding
The melting of ice, snow, or other frozen or congealed matter; the transformation of ice or the like into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
a period of weather warm enough to melt that which is frozen
verb
(intransitive) To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
(intransitive) To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen
(intransitive, figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
(transitive) To gradually cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve.
twae
twal
twas
twas
abbrev
Misspelling of 'twas.
Obsolete spelling of 'twas
twat
twat
noun
(offensive, vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A contemptible and stupid person, idiot.
(vulgar, slang) The vagina or vulva.
verb
(transitive, Britain, slang) To hit, slap.
tway
tway
num
(dialectal, obsolete in virtually all other forms) Two.
utwa
waft
waft
noun
(nautical) A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft.
A light breeze.
Something (such as an odor or perfume) that is carried through the air.
verb
(ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
(intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.
wait
wait
intj
(informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.
noun
(computing) Short for wait state.
(in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
(in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
(obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
A delay.
An ambush.
verb
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
(intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
(intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
(obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
(obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
(transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
(transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.
walt
walt
adj
(archaic, nautical) unsteady; crank
verb
(intransitive, dialectal or obsolete) To roll; tumble
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To turn; cast; hurl; fling; overturn
want
want
noun
(UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
(countable) A desire, wish, longing.
(countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
(dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
(uncountable) Poverty.
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
verb
(by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
(colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
(intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
(intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
(intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
(transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
(transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
(transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
(transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
(transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.
wart
wart
noun
(computing, programming, slang, derogatory) Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
(pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Any similar growth occurring in plants or animals, such as the parotoid glands in the back of toads.
wast
wast
noun
Obsolete form of waist.
verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple past form of be; wert.
wath
wath
noun
(historical, England, dialect) A ford.
(obsolete) A fordable stream.
wats
wats
noun
plural of wat
watt
watt
noun
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W
weta
weta
noun
Any of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, resembling katydids or crickets.
what
what
adv
Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions.
det
(interrogative) Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
(relative) Any ... that; all ... that; whatever.
(relative) Which; the ... that.
Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'.
Used to form exclamations.
intj
(Britain, colloquial, dated) Clipping of what do you say? Used as a type of tag question to emphasise a statement and invite agreement, often rhetorically.
An expression of surprise or disbelief.
Indicating a guess or approximation, or a pause to try to recall information.
What did you say? I beg your pardon?
What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires.
What! That’s amazing!
noun
(countable) Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
(countable) The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
(obsolete, uncountable) Something; thing; stuff.
particle
(Manglish, Singlish) Emphasizes the truth of an assertion made to contradict an evidently false assumption held by the listener.
pron
(fused relative) Anything that; all that; whatever.
(fused relative) That which; those that; the thing(s) that.
(interrogative) Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.