noun (plural daffs)

1. (context, british, colloquial) Short form of daffodil.

Get your daffs here - £2 a bunch

noun

1. Airborne particles emitted from a cat or dog; hair follicles and dead skin; allergens.

noun

1. (typography) The symbol " (en-dash) or " (em-dash)

sometimes dash is also used colloquially to refer to the symbol - (hyphen)

1. A short run.
2. A small quantity of a liquid substance; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.

Add a of vinegar

1. A dashboard.
2. One of the two symbols of Morse code.

verb (dash, es)

1. (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.

He dashed across the field.

1. (context, intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.

I have to now. See you soon.

1. (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).

He dashed the bottle against the bar and turned about to fight.

1. (transitive) To throw violently.

The man was dashed from the vehicle during the accident.

1. (transitive) To sprinkle; to splatter.
2. (transitive) To ruin; to destroy.

Her hopes were dashed when she saw the damage.

1. (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.

Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.

1. (transitive) To complete hastily, usually with down or off.

He dashed down his eggs, she dashed off her homework

verb

1. (past participle of, dash)

adjective

1. Of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
2. (UK, informal) A euphemism for damned.

It's a shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

noun

1. a male day pupil

proper noun

1. A title afforded to a dean.
   
2. A habitational surname from Middle English dene "valley".
   
3. (given name, male) derived from the surname or from the title.

verb (debagg, ed)

1. (transitive, british) To pull down the trousers quickly without consent of, as a prank.

noun

1. the action of protecting from attack

noun

1. (context, UK, slang) A look.
2. (context, UK, slang) A glance.

noun

1. demagogism

noun

1. a valley, especially the deep valley of a stream or rivulet

noun

1. A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal.

noun

1. The northern English form of ditch.
2. A ditch and bank running alongside each other (the excavation was the soruce of the material of the embankment.)
3. A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding.
4. (pejorative) A lesbian, especially a manly or unattractive lesbian.
5. (geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.

noun

1. Traditional Australian Aboriginal string bag, made from twisted bark fibres. Used for gathering food.

adjective

1. (informal, UK) tiny, Tiny and cute; small and charmful.
2. (informal, US) tiny, Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.

They stayed in a hotel room, but they had a great trip.

noun

1. A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
2. A type of paint.

verb

1. to disturb and disorder, hence to make sick

verb

1. To be uncertain or unable to make a decision about doing something.
2. To do something nervously.

noun

verb

1. (transitive) To turn aside from a course.

The workers diverted the stream away from the road.

1. (transitive) To distract.

Don't let him your attention; keep your eye on the ball.

initialism

1. (grammar) Direct Object

proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given name Donald or Gordon.

noun

1. Work avoidance.

I am going to have a tomorrow.

1. Easy piece of work

Circumnavigating the world in a canoe is no

verb (doss, es)

1. (context, UK, and, Ireland) To avoid work, skirk, etc.

I am going to tomorrow when the match is on.

1. (context, UK, slang)To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless
   

   I normally have to in shop doorways or park benches.

noun (plural dotterels)

1. A small plover, Chardrius morinellus, that breeds in northern Eurasia and winters in north Africa and the Middle East.

verb (douses, dousing, doused)

1. To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.
2. To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.
3. To fall suddenly into water.
4. To put out; to extinguish.

proper noun

1. One of the counties of Northern Ireland

noun

1. the action or an act of pulling something along, esp. a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor
2. the act of drawing
3. that which is drawn
4. that which draws
5. capacity of being drawn
6. a current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle)
7. the depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull
8. an amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow

She took a deep from the bottle of water.

1. a game piece used in the game of draughts
2. (Australia) type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast

noun (plural draughtsmen)

1. a person skilled at drawing engineering or architectural plans

noun

1. A tack for attaching paper to a drawing board etc

noun

1. (British) a multi functional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle
   
2. (British) any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room
   1. a private room on a railroad sleeping car

noun (U.K.)

1. A road in which the two directions of traffic are separated by a central barrier or strip of land, known as a central reservation or median.

:In the United States, the equivalent term is divided highway.

noun

1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. Specifically, an adult female female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. (UK, especially East of the Pennines) Dear, Mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

1. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
2. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.

1. • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories":
     

     He was dressed in a Jaeger vest"a pair of blue trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.

verb

1. (intransitive) To lower the head in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
2. (transitive) To lower (something) into water.
3. (transitive) To lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
4. (transitive) To try to evade doing something.

noun

1. A pet name used affectionately.

"Morning, !" said Roderick, as he gave his partner a quick peck on the cheek and sat down to breakfast.

adjective

1. (context, slang, archaic) great, Great; going well; proceeding in an eminently agreeable fashion.

Farnesworth smiled contentedly as he read the stock ticker; all was on Wall Street.

noun

1. A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can.

noun (dustmen)

1. Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.

Oh, my old man's a dustman

He wears a dustman's hat

He wears cor-blimey trousers

And he lives in a council flat - w:Lonnie Donegan, Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman

noun (duties)

1. That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.

England expects that every man will do his . (Nelson)

She felt it was her bounten duty to tell the police about the incident.

1. A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.

I"m on from 6 pm to 6 am.

1. describing a workload as to its idle, working and deenergized periods.
2. A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.

noun (du, ces)

1. (Scotland, New Zealand, Australia) The top student in a class.
2. A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.

noun

1. a firework that fails to go off, due to wetting
2. (idiom) (by extension) anything that doesn't work properly, or fails to come up to expectations

initialism

1. Do It Yourself

adjective (dodgi, er) (british)

1. evasive and shifty

Asked why, a spokesman gave a answer about legal ramifications.

1. unsound and unreliable

Never listen to advice.

The old machine kept breaking down.

1. dishonest

The more money the better, because there is always that politician or corrupt official to bribe.

I am sure you wouldn't want to be seen buying gear, would you? (stolen goods).

1. risky

This is a slightly plan, because there is a lot that is being changed for this fix.

1. deviant

He's a Peeping Tom.

1. weird

The situation was right .

I'm feeling today, probably got the flu.

proper noun

1. (given name, female), diminutive of Dorothy, and later also of Dolores.

noun

1. step, Step of a door. On one's doorstep.
2. A big slice of bread.

noun (dummies)

1. A silent person; a person who does not talk.
2. An unintelligent person.

• Don't be such a !
  1. A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist.
  2. Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.

• To understand the effects of the accident, we dropped a from the rooftop.
  1. A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.

• The hammer and drill in the display are dummies.
  1. (context, Australia, UK) A pacifier.

• The baby wants its .
  1. (bridge) The partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand.
  2. A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player in sport; feints.
  3. (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.

• The pronoun "it" in "It's a mystery why this happened" is a .
  1. (complang) An unused parameter or value.

• If <code>flag1</code> is false, the other parameters are dummies.

verb (dummies, dummying, dummied)

1. To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
   

   The carpenters dummied some props for the rehearsals.