A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
verb
(transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
(transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
(transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
(transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
To push; to tug; to tow.
To shoot a marble.
tew
tew
noun
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A cord; a string.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A rope or chain for towing a boat.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) Trouble; worry.
verb
(UK, Scotland, obsolete, dialect) To tease; to vex or worry.
(by extension) To beat; to scourge.
To harangue or argue with.
To muddle; to mix up.
To prepare (leather, hemp, etc.) by beating or working; to taw.
To tow along, as a vessel.
To work at or worry.
To work hard; to strive.
tiw
tow
tow
noun
(motor racing) A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
(specifically) The short, coarse, less desirable fibres separated by hackling from the finer longer fibres (line).
A rope or cable used in towing.
An untwisted bundle of fibres such as cellulose acetate, flax, hemp or jute.
Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
verb
(running, cycling, motor racing, etc.) To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
(transitive) To pull something behind one using a line or chain; to haul.
trw
twa
twg
twi
twm
two
two
noun
(US, informal) A two-dollar bill.
A child aged two.
A playing card featuring two pips.
The digit/figure 2.
Two o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
num
A numerical value equal to 2; this many dots (••).
Describing a set or group with two elements.
twp
twp
adj
(Wales) Foolish.
noun
(Wales) A fool.
Abbreviation of township.
tws
twt
twt
name
Abbreviation of Twitter.
noun
(countable) Abbreviation of tweet.
(countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of Twitter.
verb
Abbreviation of tweet.
twx
wat
wat
noun
(cooking) A kind of stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
pron
(informal, Internet, text messaging) Alternative spelling of what
wdt
wet
wet
adj
(Britain, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
(aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
(biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
(chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
(dated or obsolete, colloquial) Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
(retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
(slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
(slang, archaic) Refreshed with liquor; drunk.
(slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
(slang, vulgar) (of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
(Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
(Britain, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
(US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
(colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
(colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
(motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
Liquid or moisture.
Rainy weather.
verb
(US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
(intransitive) To make or become wet.
(transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
(transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
(transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
(transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
Misspelling of whet.
to wet the baby's head
wit
wit
noun
(now usually in the plural) Sanity.
(obsolete, usually in the plural) The senses.
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
Intelligence; common sense.
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
prep
(Southern US) Pronunciation spelling of with.
verb
(transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
wot
wot
adv
(Singlish) Alternative form of wat (used to contradict an assumption)
intj
Eye dialect spelling of what.
verb
(archaic) To know (in the sense of knowing a fact).
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wit
first-person singular present indicative of wit
wrt
wtf
wtf
phrase
Alternative letter-case form of WTF
wtr
wut
wut
intj
(Internet slang, nonstandard, eye dialect) What, both in its standard meaning as an interjection, but especially as a response to an outrageous or unexpected statement.