(slang) Pronunciation spelling of cock (in the sense of penis).
Alternative form of cauk
cawl
cawl
noun
A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.
Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”)
caws
caws
noun
plural of caw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of caw
cckw
ccws
chaw
chaw
noun
(countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
(obsolete) The jaw.
verb
(UK, slang) To steal.
(archaic or nonstandard outside dialects, e.g. Appalachia, Southern US) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud)
(obsolete, transitive) To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider
chew
chew
noun
(countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
(informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
(uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
Level of chewiness.
The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
verb
(informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
chow
chow
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
(chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
(mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
A Chow Chow.
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
verb
(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
(slang, South Africa) To eat.
claw
claw
noun
(botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
(colloquial) A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
(juggling) The act of catching a ball overhand.
A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
A foot equipped with such.
A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
verb
(juggling) To perform a claw catch.
To do (something) quickly.
To move with one's fingertips.
To rail at, revile, or scold (someone or something).
To relieve an uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching (someone or something); hence (figuratively), to flatter or humour (someone); to court, to fawn on.
To scratch or to tear at.
To use the claws to climb.
To use the claws to seize, to grip.
clew
clew
noun
(archaic) A ball of thread or yarn.
(in the plural) The sheets so attached to a sail.
(nautical) The lower corner(s) of a sail to which a sheet is attached for trimming the sail (adjusting its position relative to the wind); the metal loop or cringle in the corner of the sail, to which the sheet is attached. (on a triangular sail) The trailing corner relative to the wind direction.
(nautical, in the plural) The cords suspending a hammock.
(obsolete) A roughly spherical mass or body.
Obsolete spelling of clue
Yarn or thread as used to guide one's way through a maze or labyrinth; a guide, a clue.
verb
(nautical) (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail)
(transitive) to roll into a ball
clow
cowk
cowl
cowl
noun
(metonymically) A monk.
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
(obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
verb
(Yorkshire) To scrape together
(transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
cown
cows
cows
noun
Alternative form of kouse
plural of cow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cow
cowy
cowy
adj
Resembling a cow, cowlike
craw
craw
noun
(archaic) The stomach of an animal.
The crop of a bird.
verb
(archaic) To caw, crow.
crew
crew
noun
(Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
(Scouting) A group of Rovers.
(art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
(art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
(informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
(nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
(obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
(often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
(plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
(rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
(slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
(sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
A group of people working together on a task.
The Manx shearwater.
verb
(Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
(nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
(nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
(transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
To be a member of a work or production crew
To supply workers or sailors for a crew
crow
crow
noun
(among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
(ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.
(historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
(military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
The cry of the bird known in the US as a rooster and in British English as a cockerel.
verb
(intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
(intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
(intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
crwd
cwms
cwms
noun
plural of cwm
cwru
icbw
kowc
kwic
kwic
Noun
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kwoc
lacw
nswc
opcw
pwca
rswc
scaw
scaw
noun
(dialectal) A wood or forest; a shaw.
Alternative form of skaw (“promontory”)
scow
scow
noun
A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
verb
(transitive) To transport in a scow.
swec
waac
wace
wace
Proper noun
A Jersey-born writer of the 12th century.
wack
wack
adj
(originally African-American Vernacular, slang) Annoyingly or disappointingly bad, in various senses; lousy, cringy, uncool, messed up.
noun
(UK, Liverpudlian) A friendly term of address.
(dated, disco-era drug slang) PCP, phencyclidine (as also whack).
An eccentric; an oddball; a weirdo.
waco
waco
Proper noun
A city in Georgia in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
A city in Missouri.
A village in Nebraska.
A town in North Carolina.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
A city in Texas.
wacs
warc
wcpc
wctu
weco
wfpc
wice
wich
wich
noun
A bundle of thread. Alternative spelling of wick
Alternative form of wych (brine spring or well)
wick
wick
adj
(Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
(Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire, of inanimate objects) resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).
noun
(Britain, dialect, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
(Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
(Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
(Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire, horticulture) (Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
(Britain, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
(curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
(curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
(now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
(slang, euphemistic) The penis.
A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.
verb
(curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
(intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
(transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.