| Gaby |
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noun (given=yes)
- Short form of the female given name Gabrielle.
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noun (plural gaffs)
- (context, fishing) A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, used to pull in large fish.
- (British slang) A place of residence.
- We're going round to Mike's gaff later to watch the footie.
- (context, nautical) The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
| | gaffer |
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noun
- (context, Filmology): A lighting electrician for a motion-picture or television production.
| | galah |
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noun
- A pink and grey species of cockatoo native to Australia. Scientific name: Eolophus roseicapilla.
- (AU, slang) An idiot, particularly when driving.
- That nearly drove me off the road.
| | gammon |
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noun
- The lower or hind part of a side of bacon
- A victory in backgammon achieved without losing a single piece
- (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship
| | gamp |
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noun
- (context, UK) (archaic or dialect): An umbrella.
| | ganger |
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noun
- One who oversees a gang of workmen.
| | gaol |
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noun
- (context, UK, archaic) (alternative spelling of, jail)
- (context, AU, NZ) prefered (alternative spelling of, jail)
| | garnish |
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noun
- a set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- pewter vessels in general.
- Quotations
- 1882: The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also . — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 478.
verb (garnishes, garnished, garnishing)
- To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish; as, all within with flowers was garnished.
- (cookery) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
- To furnish; to supply.
- By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
- To fit with fetters.
- To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
| | gaudy |
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noun (gaud, ies)
- A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the summer vacations.
adjective (gaud, ier)
- Excessively showy or ornamented in a tasteless or vulgar manner.
| | George |
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proper noun
- (given name, male).
- (slang), (archaic) A coin with King George"s profile.
- Take the Georges, Pew, and don"t stand here squalling. — Robert Louis Stevenson.
| | geyser |
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noun
- A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
- (context, British, archaic) An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
- 1902: William Paton Buchan, Plumbing: A Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber - Where a Geyser or hot-water heater is used it is a good and wise precaution to see that the bath-room, &c., when it is used is well ventilated.
- 1998: Gordon S Riess, Confessions of a Corporate Centurion: Tales of International Adventures - Water was heated either on the gas stove, or on a wall mounted gas-fired "" heater.
- 2002: Alaine Polcz, One woman in the war: Hungary, 1944-1945 - It was here I saw a gas water heater in a bathroom for the first time. (I was afraid of it).
| | gilgai |
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noun
- (Australian English) a small concavity or depression between ridges, where rainwater gathers
- 1988: Though it wasn't a heavy storm it was enough to put water in holes and scatter the horses. " Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked (Angus&Robertson 1995 p.160)
| | gill |
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- The breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
| | gin |
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noun
- (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
- A snare or trap for game.
- A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
- A pile driver.
- A windpump.
- A cotton gin.
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verb (gin, n, ed)
- (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
- (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
| | gipsy |
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noun
- Spelling variant of gypsy
| | glasshouse |
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noun
- A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass. (chiefly commercial).
- A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
- (British army slang) A military prison.
| | glebe |
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noun
- Turf; soil; ground; sod.
- In medieval Europe, a glebe was an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
| | gob |
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noun
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (context, UK, countable, slang) The mouth.
- He's always stuffing her with fast food.
- Oi, you, shut your !
- She's got such a on her - she's always gossiping about someone or other.
- (context, uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- He spat a big ball of on to the pavement.
- (context, US military slang) Sailor.
verb to gob
- To spit, especially to spit phlegm
| | gombeen |
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noun
- Usury.
- A moneylender.
- (slang) A fool or idiot.
adjective
- Stupid.
- They were talking gombeen politics.
| | GOOG |
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abbreviation
- (NASDAQ Symbol) Google
| | | gossip |
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noun
- Someone who likes to talk about someone else"s private or personal business.
- Idle talk about someone"s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
verb
- Talking about someone else's private or personal business.
- Talking idly.
| | gowk |
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noun
- a cuckoo
- a fool
- 1976: God has sent me gowks for secretaries. " Robert Nye, Falstaff
| | Graeco-Roman |
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adjective - Of or pertaining to Greek or Roman culture.
| | graft |
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noun (plural: grafts)
- A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- Hard work (colloq)
- (slang) A criminal's special branch of practice
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, esp.in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A con job.
- (slang): A cut of the take (money).
- , (context, Politics): A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. (uncountable)
verb
- To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- Quotations
- And my love immortal on thy fame! " Pope
- (nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
- (intransitive) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
| | Grange |
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proper noun
- (usually, with "The") National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association of farmers; one of the branch lodges of this association
| | gree |
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noun
- (archaic) pleasure, Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
- Late C14: And notified is í¾urÈ�out í¾e toun / í�at every wiÈ�t, wií¾ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist í¾at he í¾is mariage / Recyve in and spede í¾is viage. " Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale
- 1885: When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly , if the King permit me." " Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. vol. 1
| | green fingers |
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idiom
- (idiom) A seemingly natural gardening ability
| | greengrocer |
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noun
- (context, mostly, UK) A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop
| | greenie |
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noun
- (Australian English) A member of the Green Party; an environmentalist.
| | grig |
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noun
- little creature, reptile;
- A cricket or grasshopper.
- Any small eel.
- The broad-nosed eel. See Glut
- heath.
verb (grig, g, ed)
- (transitive) To irritate or annoy.
| | grizzle |
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noun
- (colour) a grey colour.
- <table><tr><td>grizzle colour: </td><td bgcolor="
- 626461" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
- grey hair.
- a grey wig.
verb (grizzl, ing)
- to make or become grey.
adjective
- (colour) of a grey colour.
| | grocery |
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noun (groceri, es)
- retail, Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies.
- 1776: s:Adam Smith, Adam Smith, s:The Wealth of Nations/Book I/Chapter 10, The Wealth of Nations
- :Where ten thousand pounds can be employed in the trade, the wages of the grocer's labour make but a very trifling addition...
- A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.
- 1854: s:Henry David Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau, s:Walden/Chapter_VIII, Walden
- :I observed that the vitals of the village were the , the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank...
| | grouse |
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noun (pl=grouse, pl2=grouses)
- Any of various game birds of the family ''Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
verb (grous, ing)
- To complain or grumble. As in 'Duck or Grouse', often written on low beams in pubs.
adjective (grous, er)
- (italbrac, Australian slang) excellent
- I had a day.
- That food was .
| | growler |
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noun
- A person, creature or thing that growls.
- (context, historical, slang) A cab with four wheels.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 254:
- :Lew pulled his socks from a jacket pocket, grabbed his own shoes, and together they proceeded to the street and into a , and were off.
- (rfv-sense) A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
- (rfv-sense) (informal) A roughly half gallon jug typically used to carry beer.
- (italbrac, dialect) A Yorkshire term for a pork pie.
- (rfv-sense) (context, UK, slang) The vagina.
| | guard |
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noun
- a person who protects or watches over something
- (military) A squad responsible for protecting something.
- The president inspected the of honour.
- a part of a machine which blocks access to dangerous parts
- (Aus) panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- (context, Basketball) A relatively short player, playing farther from the basket than a forward or center.
- (cricket) The position on the popping crease where a batsman makes a mark to align himself with the wicket (see to take guard)
- The offensive positions between the center and each of the offensive tackles
- (sports) A player playing a position named guard
- (railways) An employee who normally travels in the last vehicle of a train and is responsible for the safety of the train
verb
- To protect from some offence (specific or abstract.)
| | gun |
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noun
- (context, Military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02.
- (context, Military) A cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02.
- A very portable, short weapon, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing weapon; a handgun.
- A less portable, long weapon; a bullet or projectile firing weapon; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic, or a shotgun (or, historically, a musket or other firearm now obsolete).
- This is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for fighting, one is for fun. (U.S. military cadence, used to make recruits memorize that the only correct term for a soldier's firearm is 'rifle', not some 'gun'.)
- Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., potato gun, air-pressure pellet gun.
- Any device or tool that projects a payload in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun.
- A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, price gun, screw gun.
- (context, surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- 2000: by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore. — Drew Kampion at surfline.com http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=766
- (context, colloquial, usually plural) biceps.
verb (gun, n, ing)
- (italbrac, with "down") To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
- He gunned down the hitmen.
- The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
- To speed something up.
- He gunned the engine up.
- To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
- He"s gunning for you.
| | gunyah |
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noun - Traditional Aboriginal dwelling in some parts of Australia.
| | guv |
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noun
- (context, UK, especially, London, informal) a form of address, usually to an unknown male or a superior. An informal form of sir.
- Spare two quid, ? I 'aven't eaten since yesterday.
- Right away, ... I mean, sarge.
| | Guy |
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noun - (British) An effigy of w:Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes burned on Bonfire Night
proper noun
- (given name, male).
| | gammy |
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noun
- (substandard) Grandmother.
adjective
- injured, Injured, or not functioning properly.
- I have got a leg, and can't walk far.
- (alternative spelling of, gamy)(rfv-sense)
| | GCE |
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initialism
- General Certificate of Education. w:General Certificate of Education, Wikipedia has an article General Certificate of Education
- Global Campaign for Education
- Gross Conceptual Error
| | gong |
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noun (gongs)
- (musici) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer
- a medal or award
| | gormless |
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adjective
- (context, chiefly, UK, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or discernment, often implying lack of capacity of will to remedy the condition.
- inexperienced, Inexperienced, naí¯ve, innocent to the point of foolishness.
| | gunge |
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noun
- A soft, sticky mass; goo; gunk.
- They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material "gunge."
- --New Scientist
verb (gung, es)
- To clog with gunge (often constructed as gunge up.)
- To cover someone with gunge.
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