(UK, dialectal) Alternative form of gorm (gawk, gape)
(dialectal) Alternative form of gum (make sticky, or impair the function of)
hawm
hawm
noun
Alternative form of haulm (straw)
verb
(UK, dialect) To lounge; to loiter.
mawk
mawk
noun
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A slattern.
(obsolete except in dialects) A maggot.
mawn
mawn
noun
(Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.
mawp
mawr
maws
maws
noun
plural of maw
mbwa
meaw
meaw
noun
Obsolete form of mew (“seagull”).
verb
Dated form of meow.
meow
meow
intj
Said in reply to a spiteful or catty comment.
Said to denote seductiveness, mimicking a growl.
The cry of a cat.
noun
(UK, slang, uncountable) The drug mephedrone.
verb
(intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.
mewl
mewl
noun
A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.
verb
To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
mews
mews
noun
(Britain) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
(falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
plural of mew
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mew
mofw
morw
mowe
mown
mown
verb
past participle of mow
mows
mows
noun
plural of mow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mow
mowt
mpow
olwm
pswm
smew
smew
noun
A small compact diving duck, Mergus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.
swam
swam
verb
simple past tense of swim
swim
swim
noun
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums
(UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
A dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in a freestyle swimming manner.
A dizziness; swoon.
An act or instance of swimming.
The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
verb
(intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
(intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
(intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
(intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
(intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
(intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
(intransitive, archaic) To float.
(transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
(transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
(transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
(transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.
swom
swum
swum
verb
(archaic, dialectal) simple past tense of swim
past participle of swim
twum
wame
wame
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) The belly.
(Scotland, Northern England) The womb.
wamp
wamp
noun
The common American eider.
wams
warm
warm
adj
(archaic) Ardent, zealous.
(archaic) Requiring arduous effort.
(archaic, colloquial) Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
(figurative) Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness
Caring and friendly, of relations to another person.
Close, often used in the context of a game in which "warm" and "cold" are used to indicate nearness to the goal.
Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
Having a color in the red-orange-yellow part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum.
Having a temperature slightly higher than usual, but still pleasant; mildly hot.
noun
(colloquial) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a heating.
verb
(computing, transitive) To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
(intransitive) To become ardent or animated.
(intransitive) To become warm, to heat up.
(transitive with to) (sometimes in the form warm up) To favour increasingly.
(transitive) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal in; to enliven.
(transitive) To make or keep warm.
(transitive, colloquial) To beat or spank.
(transitive, colloquial) To scold or abuse verbally.
weam
weem
weem
verb
(West Country, Bristol) we are
wham
wham
intj
The sound of a forceful blow.
noun
a forceful blow
the sound of such a blow; a thud
verb
to strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact
whim
whim
noun
(mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.
A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
verb
(rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.
whom
whom
pron
(fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.
(relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
As the object of a preposition.
As the object of a verb.
wime
wimp
wimp
noun
(derogatory, slang) Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
Alternative spelling of WIMP
verb
(intransitive) To behave submissively.
(transitive) To render wimpy.
womb
womb
noun
(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
(figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
(obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
(obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
womp
woom
worm
worm
noun
(anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
(anatomy) The lytta.
(archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.
(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
(fantasy, science fiction) Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
(figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
(mathematics) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
(obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
(preceded by definite article) A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
A contemptible or devious being.
A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
verb
(intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
(intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
(often followed by out) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
(transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
(transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
(transitive) To deworm (an animal).
(transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
(transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
(transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
(transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.