amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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(adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, murderously |
(adverb) wildly; without self-control | Synonyms: amok |
awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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blackbuck | (noun) common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns | Synonyms: Antilope cervicapra, black buck |
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bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
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bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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(adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
buck | (noun) mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope) | - |
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(noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: horse, sawbuck, sawhorse |
(noun) a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting | Synonyms: long horse, vaulting horse |
(noun) a piece of paper money worth one dollar | Synonyms: clam, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill |
(verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: hitch, jerk |
(verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear |
(verb) resist | Synonyms: go against |
(verb) to strive with determination | - |
buckaroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckeroo, vaquero |
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buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckboard | (noun) an open horse-drawn carriage with four wheels; has a seat attached to a flexible board between the two axles | - |
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buckeroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, vaquero |
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bucket | (noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | Synonyms: pail |
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(noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucketful |
(verb) carry in a bucket | - |
(verb) put into a bucket | - |
bucketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucket |
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buckeye | (noun) tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds | Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut |
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(noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: conker, horse chestnut |
buckle | (noun) fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong | - |
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(noun) a shape distorted by twisting or folding | Synonyms: warp |
(verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
(verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
(verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
buckler | (noun) armor carried on the arm to intercept blows | Synonyms: shield |
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buckleya | (noun) parasitic shrub of the eastern United States having opposite leaves and insignificant greenish flowers followed by oily dull green olivelike fruits | Synonyms: Buckleya distichophylla |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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buckram | (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: starchy, stiff |
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(noun) a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing | - |
(verb) stiffen with or as with buckram | - |
bucksaw | (noun) a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
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buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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buckshot | (noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells | Synonyms: bird shot, duck shot |
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buckskin | (noun) horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail | - |
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(noun) a soft yellowish suede leather originally from deerskin but now usually from sheepskin | - |
buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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(noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
(noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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(noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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bushbuck | (noun) antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns | Synonyms: guib, Tragelaphus scriptus |
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chuck | (noun) a holding device consisting of adjustable jaws that center a workpiece in a lathe or center a tool in a drill | - |
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(noun) the part of a forequarter from the neck to the ribs and including the shoulder blade | - |
(noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, eats, grub |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: toss |
(verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: pat |
(verb) throw away | Synonyms: ditch |
chuckhole | (noun) a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) | Synonyms: pothole |
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chuckle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chortle |
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(verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
chuckwalla | (noun) a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Sauromalus obesus |
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cluck | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: clucking |
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(verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
clucking | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: cluck |
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clusterfuck | (noun) A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong | - |
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cocksucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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(noun) a person who performs fellatio | - |
cuckold | (noun) a man whose wife committed adultery | - |
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(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, wander |
cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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cuckoldom | (noun) the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery | - |
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cuckoldry | (noun) the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women | - |
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cuckoo | (noun) any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail | - |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
(verb) repeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call | - |
cuckooflower | (noun) a bitter cress of Europe and America | Synonyms: Cardamine pratensis, cuckoo flower, lady's smock, meadow cress |
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cuckoopint | (noun) common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum | Synonyms: Arum maculatum, jack-in-the-pulpit, lords-and-ladies |
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duck | (noun) small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs | - |
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(noun) a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents | - |
(noun) flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) | - |
(noun) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman | Synonyms: duck's egg |
(verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
(verb) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away | - |
(verb) submerge or plunge suddenly | - |
(verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, douse |
duckbill | (adjective) having a beak resembling that of a duck | Synonyms: duck-billed |
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(noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
(noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
duckboard | (noun) a boardwalk laid across muddy ground | - |
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ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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(noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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(noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
duckpin | (noun) a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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ducky | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, favorite, favourite, pet |
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dumbstruck | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumfounded, flabbergasted, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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fuck | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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(noun) Strongly and emphatically all of something | - |
(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
fucked | (adjective) Severly damaged, in disarray or incorrect | - |
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fucker | (noun) a stupid despised man | - |
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fuckhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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fuckhole | (noun) A hole that can be used for sexual intercourse | - |
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fucking | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming |
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(noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
(adverb) intensifier, very colloquial | - |
fuckup | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, pratfall |
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(noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
gemsbuck | (noun) large South African oryx with a broad black band along its flanks | Synonyms: gemsbok, Oryx gazella |
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geoduck | (noun) a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell | - |
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goatsucker | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: caprimulgid, nightjar |
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guck | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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(noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
(noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |
huck | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huckaback |
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huckaback | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huck |
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huckleberry | (noun) blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States | - |
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(noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries | - |
(noun) any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries | - |
huckster | (noun) a seller of shoddy goods | Synonyms: cheap-jack |
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(noun) a person who writes radio or tv advertisements | - |
(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, monger, peddle, pitch, vend |
(verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: chaffer, haggle, higgle |
knuckle | (noun) a joint of a finger when the fist is closed | Synonyms: knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal joint |
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(verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
(verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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knucklehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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knuckler | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckleball |
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knuckles | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knucks |
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knucks | (noun) (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand | Synonyms: brass knuckles, brass knucks, knuckle duster, knuckles |
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luck | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: fortune |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion |
luckily | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately |
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luckiness | (noun) an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
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luckless | (adjective) having or bringing misfortune | Synonyms: unlucky |
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lucky | (adjective) having or bringing good fortune | - |
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(adjective) occurring by chance | - |
(adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous |
lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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megabucks | (noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, bundle, pile |
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mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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moonstruck | (adjective) insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon | Synonyms: lunatic |
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motherfucker | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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motortruck | (noun) an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling | Synonyms: truck |
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muck | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, ooze, slime, sludge |
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(noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, dung |
(verb) remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine | - |
(verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire | Synonyms: mire, muck up, mud |
(verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: manure |
muckheap | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckhill |
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muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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muckle | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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muckrake | (verb) explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures | - |
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muckraker | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: mudslinger |
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muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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mucky | (adjective) dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck | Synonyms: muddy |
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(adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged |
pluck | (noun) the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord | - |
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(noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluckiness |
(verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pull off, tweak |
(verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pick |
(verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pick, plunk |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear |
(verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge |
(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, roll |
plucked | (adjective) of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum | - |
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(adjective) having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl | - |
pluckily | (adverb) in a plucky manner | - |
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pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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