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aaru

aaup

aauw

abdu

abeu

abiu

abiu

noun

  1. A South American tropical fruit tree, Pouteria caimito.

abut

abut

verb

  1. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
  2. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
  3. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

aclu

acsu

actu

acus

addu

adur

afuu

agau

agua

ague

ague

noun

  1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
  2. (obsolete) Malaria.
  3. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
  4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
  5. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever

verb

  1. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

ahum

ahum

adj

  1. humming

intj

  1. Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”)

ainu

alru

alum

alum

noun

  1. (chemistry) Any similar double sulphate in which either or both of the potassium and aluminium is wholly or partly replaced by other univalent or tervalent cations.
  2. (shortening, Canada, US) A past attendee or graduate (of either gender) of a college, university or other educational institution.
  3. An astringent salt, usually occurring in the form of pale crystals, much used in the dyeing and tanning trade and in certain medicines, and now understood to be a double sulphate of potassium and aluminium (K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O).

verb

  1. (transitive) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

alur

ammu

amou

amur

amur

noun

  1. Any of various hybrids of the white amur that were bred for aquatic weed control.

amus

amus

noun

  1. plural of amu

ansu

antu

anus

anus

noun

  1. (anatomy) The lower orifice of the alimentary canal, through which feces and flatus are ejected.
  2. (informal, derogatory) An impolite, unpopular, or unintelligent person.

aoul

apdu

apsu

apul

apus

aqua

aqua

adj

  1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

noun

  1. (inorganic chemistry) The compound water.
  2. A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.

aquo

ardu

arui

arum

arum

noun

  1. A flower or plant in the genus Arum

arun

arun

Proper noun

  1. a local government district in West Sussex, England.
  2. a river in West Sussex, after which the district was named.

Proper noun

  1. name chiefly used in India.

asur

asur

noun

  1. (India, Hinduism) Alternative spelling of Asura.
  2. (India, derogatory) An evil person.

attu

atua

atul

atum

atum

Proper noun

  1. The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.

aube

aube

noun

  1. Obsolete form of alb.

auca

auca

noun

  1. A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.

aude

audi

audy

auer

auew

auge

augh

augh

intj

  1. Alternative form of argh.

augy

auks

auks

noun

  1. plural of auk

aula

aula

noun

  1. (anatomy, obsolete) The anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain leading to the lateral ventricles.
  2. (rare) A court or hall.

auld

auld

adj

  1. (archaic, Northern England, Liverpudlian, Scotland, Ireland) old

ault

aulu

aune

aune

noun

  1. An old French cloth measure, varying around the country, but at Paris equivalent to 0.95 of an English ell.

aunt

aunt

noun

  1. (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
  2. (obsolete) A procuress or bawd.
  3. (obsolete) Any elderly woman.
  4. The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
  5. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.

aura

aura

noun

  1. (medicine) Perceptual disturbance experienced by some migraine sufferers before a migraine headache.
  2. (medicine) Telltale sensation experienced by some people with epilepsy before a seizure.
  3. (parapsychology) An invisible force surrounding a living creature.
  4. Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something.

ause

aust

ausu

aute

auth

auth

noun

  1. Abbreviation of authentication.
  2. Abbreviation of authoritarian.
  3. Abbreviation of authorization.

verb

  1. (informal, computing) To authenticate.

auto

auto

adj

  1. Clipping of automatic. (of a gearbox / transmission)

noun

  1. (India) An autorickshaw.
  2. (chiefly attributively) An automobile.
  3. A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.
  4. A setting for automatic operation.
  5. An automatic gearbox / transmission.

verb

  1. (intransitive, dated) To travel by automobile.

auxf

auxo

awfu

axum

babu

babu

noun

  1. (India) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official.
  2. (India) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man

baku

balu

baru

baud

baud

noun

  1. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
  2. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

bauk

baul

baum

baun

beau

beau

noun

  1. (dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
  2. (dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
  3. A male escort.
  4. A suitor of a lady.

benu

bhut

blau

bleu

blub

blub

adj

  1. (attributively) Swollen, puffed, protruding.

noun

  1. The act of blubbing.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
  2. To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).

blue

blue

adj

  1. (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
  2. (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
  3. (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
  4. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
  5. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
  6. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  7. (health care) Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
  8. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
  9. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
  10. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
  11. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
  12. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
  13. (slang, dated) Drunk.
  14. Having blue as its color.
  15. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

noun

  1. (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
  2. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
  3. (UK) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
  4. (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
  5. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
  6. (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
  7. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
  8. (now historical) A bluestocking.
  9. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
  10. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
  11. (uncountable) Blue clothing.
  12. A blue dye or pigment.
  13. A bluefish.
  14. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
  15. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
  16. A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
  17. A person who has received such sporting colours.
  18. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
  19. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
  20. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
  21. The far distance; a remote or distant place.
  22. The ocean; deep waters.
  23. The sky, literally or figuratively.

verb

  1. (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
  2. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
  3. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
  4. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
  5. (transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

bluh

bluh

intj

  1. (colloquial, rare) Expressing disgust or discontent; blah.
  2. When repeated or combined with blah, used to denote tedious talking; blah.

blum

blum

Proper noun

  1. A town in Texas.

blup

blur

blur

adj

  1. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

noun

  1. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
  2. A smear, smudge or blot
  3. Something that appears hazy or indistinct

verb

  1. (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
  2. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
  4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
  5. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
  6. To smear, stain or smudge.

blus

bmus

bomu

boru

boud

boud

noun

  1. (obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

bouk

bouk

noun

  1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
  2. (UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
  3. (UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.

boul

boul

noun

  1. A curved handle.

boun

boun

verb

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.

bour

bout

bout

noun

  1. (boxing) A boxing match.
  2. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
  3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
  4. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
  5. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
  6. A fighting competition.
  7. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.

prep

  1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

verb

  1. To contest a bout.

bouw

brum

brum

intj

  1. Alternative form of brrm

brut

brut

adj

  1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

bthu

bual

bual

noun

  1. A variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey

buat

buat

noun

  1. (Scotland) A lantern.
  2. (Scotland) The moon.

buba

buba

noun

  1. A woman's blouse worn in West African countries.

bubb

bube

bubo

bubo

noun

  1. (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.

bubs

bubs

noun

  1. plural of bub

buch

buck

buck

noun

  1. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
  2. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
  3. (Scotland) The beech tree.
  4. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
  5. (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
  6. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
  7. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
  8. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
  9. (US, slang) One hundred.
  10. (by extension in the US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
  11. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
  12. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  13. (dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
  14. (finance) One million dollars.
  15. (informal, rare) A euro.
  16. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
  17. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
  18. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
  19. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
  20. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
  21. Clipping of buckshot.
  22. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
  23. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
  24. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

verb

  1. (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
  2. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
  3. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  4. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
  5. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
  6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  7. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  8. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
  9. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
  10. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
  11. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
  12. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  13. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  14. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  15. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

buda

budd

bude

budh

buds

buds

noun

  1. plural of bud

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bud

buff

buff

adj

  1. (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular.
  2. (color) Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
  3. (slang) Physically attractive.

noun

  1. (colloquial) The bare skin.
  2. (color) A brownish yellow colour.
  3. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
  4. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
  5. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
  6. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
  7. (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”)
  8. (video games, role-playing games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
  9. A military coat made of buff leather.
  10. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
  11. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
  12. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
  13. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

verb

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter
  2. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
  3. (video games, role-playing games) To make a character or an item stronger.
  4. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
  5. To strike.

bufo

bufo

noun

  1. (Hawaii, slang) toad, frog

bugi

bugs

bugs

adj

  1. (slang) Crazy; unstable.

noun

  1. plural of bug

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bug

buhl

buhl

noun

  1. (woodworking) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
  2. Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.

buhr

buia

buka

buka

noun

  1. (music) The short introduction to a gamelan piece, generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, with the kendhang coming in on the last few notes to set the tempo.
  2. A kangaroo-skin cloak traditionally worn by the Noongar people of southwestern Australia.

buke

bukh

bula

bulb

bulb

noun

  1. (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
  2. (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
  3. (obsolete) An onion.
  4. A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
  5. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
  6. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

bulg

bulk

bulk

adj

  1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
  2. total

noun

  1. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
  2. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
  3. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
  4. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
  5. (obsolete) The body.
  6. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
  7. Any huge body or structure.
  8. Dietary fibre.
  9. Size, specifically, volume.
  10. The major part of something.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
  2. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
  3. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
  4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

bull

bull

adj

  1. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
  2. (of large mammals) Adult male.
  3. Large and strong, like a bull.
  4. Stupid.

noun

  1. (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
  2. (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
  3. (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
  4. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
  5. (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
  6. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
  7. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
  8. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
  9. (obsolete) A bubble.
  10. (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
  11. (slang) A policeman.
  12. (slang, uncountable) Beef.
  13. (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
  14. A large, strong man.
  15. A lie.
  16. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
  17. A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
  18. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
  19. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
  20. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
  21. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
  22. Any adult male bovine.
  23. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

verb

  1. (UK, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
  2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
  3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
  4. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull
  5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
  6. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
  7. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
  8. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
  9. To mock; to cheat.

bult

bult

noun

  1. (South Africa) A ridge or small hill.

bumf

bumf

noun

  1. (Britain, obsolete) Toilet paper.
  2. (derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.

bump

bump

intj

  1. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

noun

  1. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
  2. (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
  3. (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
  4. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
  5. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
  6. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
  7. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
  8. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
  9. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
  10. A light blow or jolting collision.
  11. A protuberance on a level surface.
  12. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
  13. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
  14. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
  15. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
  16. The sound of such a collision.
  17. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.

verb

  1. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
  2. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
  3. (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
  4. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
  5. (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
  6. (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
  7. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
  8. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
  9. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
  10. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
  11. To move up or down by a step; displace.

bums

bums

noun

  1. plural of bum

verb

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bum

buna

bund

bund

noun

  1. (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
  2. (India) Alternative form of bandh
  3. A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
  4. A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
  5. A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
  6. An embankment.

verb

  1. To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.

bung

bung

adj

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order.

noun

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The landlord of a public house.
  2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A purse.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
  4. (slang) A bribe.
  5. A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
  6. The cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
  7. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

verb

  1. (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw something without care; to chuck.
  2. (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  3. (transitive) To pass a bribe.
  4. (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.

bunk

bunk

adj

  1. (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

noun

  1. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
  2. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
  3. (military) A cot.
  4. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
  5. (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
  6. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
  7. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

verb

  1. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
  2. (dated) To expel from a school.
  3. (slang) To depart; scram.
  4. To occupy a bunk.
  5. To provide a bunk.

bunn

bunn

noun

  1. Archaic form of bun (“sweetened bread roll”).

buns

buns

noun

  1. (euphemistic) The buttocks.
  2. plural of bun

bunt

bunt

noun

  1. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
  2. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
  3. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
  5. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
  6. A push or shove; a butt.

verb

  1. (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
  2. (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
  3. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
  4. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
  5. (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
  6. To push with the horns; to butt.
  7. To spring or rear up.

buoy

buoy

noun

  1. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
  2. A life-buoy; a life preserver.

verb

  1. (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
  2. (transitive) To mark with a buoy.
  3. (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
  4. To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.

bura

burd

burd

noun

  1. (poetic) maiden, young woman

bure

bure

noun

  1. A traditional Fijian cottage with a steep thatched roof and wide windows.

burg

burg

noun

  1. (Canada, US) A city or town.
  2. (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.
  3. (slang) burger

burh

burh

noun

  1. A fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.

buri

burk

burk

verb

  1. (Southern US, slang, intransitive) To vomit.

burl

burl

noun

  1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
  2. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
  3. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.

verb

  1. To remove the knots in cloth.