Synonyms of the word

bum

• n. The buttocks.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
• n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
• v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
• interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
• n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
• n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
• v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
• adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
• adj. Unfair.
• adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
• adj. Unpleasant.
• v. To depress; to make unhappy.
• n. (dated) A humming noise.
• v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
• n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

arse

• n. (dated in New England, current in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, now slang) The buttocks or…
• n. (chiefly Britain, pejorative slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
• v. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.

ass

• n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
• n. (slang) A stupid person.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
• n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
• n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
• n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
• n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.

backside

• n. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
• n. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.

behind

• prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
• prep. To the back of.
• prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
• prep. responsible for.
• prep. In support of.
• prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
• adv. At the back part; in the rear.
• adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
• adv. Overdue, in arrears.
• adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
• adv. existing afterwards.
• adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
• adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
• adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
• n. the rear, back-end.
• n. butt, the buttocks, bottom.
• n. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
• n. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick…

bottom

• n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
• n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
• n. The buttocks or anus.
• n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
• n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
• n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
• n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
• n. (physics) A bottom quark.
• n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
• n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
• n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
• n. An abyss.
• n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
• n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
• v. To fall to the lowest point.
• v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
• v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
• v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
• v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
• adj. The lowest or last place or position.

buns

• n. plural of bun.
• n. (informal) buttocks.

butt

• n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
• n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
• n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
• n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
• v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
• v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
• v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
• n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
• n. A thrust in fencing.
• n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
• n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
• n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
• n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.

buttocks

• n. plural of buttock.

cadge

• n. (falconry) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
• v. (Geordie) To beg.
• v. (US, Britain, slang) To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might…
• v. To carry hawks and other birds of prey.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To carry, as a burden.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
• v. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.

can

• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
• v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
• n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
• n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
• n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
• n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
• n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
• n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
• n. (slang) Jail or prison.
• n. (slang) Headphones.
• n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
• n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
• v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
• v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
• v. To shut up.
• v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

cheap

• n. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
• n. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
• n. Price.
• n. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
• n. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
• adj. Low and/or reduced in price.
• adj. Of poor quality.
• adj. Of little worth.
• adj. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
• adj. (chiefly Canada, US, derogatory) Ungenerous; stingy, mean (UK), tightfisted, excessively frugal.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
• adv. Cheaply.

cheesy

• adj. Of or relating to cheese.
• adj. Resembling, or containing cheese.
• adj. (informal) Cheap, of poor quality.
• adj. (informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
• adj. (of a smile or grin) Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere.

chintzy

• adj. Of or decorated with chintz.
• adj. (figuratively) Tastelessly showy; cheap, gaudy, or tacky.
• adj. (figuratively) Excessively reluctant to spend; miserly, stingy.

crumb

• n. A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
• n. (figuratively) A bit, small amount.
• n. The soft internal portion of bread, surrounded by crust.
• n. A mixture of sugar, cocoa and milk, used to make industrial chocolate.
• n. (slang) A nobody, worthless person.
• n. (slang) A body louse.
• v. To cover with crumbs.
• v. To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble.

crummy

• adj. (informal) Bad; poor.
• adj. (dated) Full of crumb or crumbs; crumby.
• adj. (dated) Soft, like the crumb of bread; not crusty.
• n. (informal, British Columbia and U.S. Pacific Northwest) Small van, bus, or railway car used to transport…

derriere

• n. (humorous) bottom, bum.

do-nothing

• n. A lazy person.

drifter

• n. (pejorative) A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
• n. (nautical) A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
• n. (automotive) A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide…
• n. (fishing) One who takes part in drift fishing.
• n. (mining, historical) A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.

fanny

• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.
• n. (Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
• n. (Britain, vulgar) A woman, or women generally, as a sexual object(s).
• n. (Britain, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.

floater

• n. Agent noun of float; one who or that which floats.
• n. An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when…
• n. A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous…
• n. An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain…
• n. (insurance) A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
• n. (police jargon) A floating corpse picked up from a body of water.
• n. (sports) An unaffiliated player.
• n. (surfing) A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or…
• n. (vulgar) A piece of faeces that floats.
• n. (slang, by extension) Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that…
• n. (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
• n. (Australia) A pie floater.
• n. (politics) A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
• n. (politics, US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents…
• n. (US, politics) One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false…
• n. (India) A sandal.
• n. A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).

fundament

• n. Foundation.
• n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
• n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

git

• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.
• n. (Britain, slang, pejorative) A silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (usually a man).
• v. (Appalachia, Southern US, African American Vernacular) To get.
• v. (Appalachia, Southern US, African American Vernacular) To leave.
• n. Alternative form of geat (channel in metal casting).

grub

• n. (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
• n. (uncountable, slang) Food.
• n. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
• v. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
• v. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
• v. (slang) To supply with food.

hindquarters

• n. plural of hindquarter.

hobo

• n. A homeless, usually penniless person, in some way associated with a life along the rails.
• n. A migratory laborer.
• n. (pejorative) A tramp, vagabond; hence bum.
• n. A kind of large handbag.
• v. (intransitive, perhaps pejorative) To be a hobo, tramp, bum etc.

idle

• adj. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
• adj. Not being use appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
• adj. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing.
• adj. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
• adj. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
• v. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
• v. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
• v. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.

idler

• n. One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
• n. One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch.
• n. A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt…
• adj. comparative form of idle: more idle.

inferior

• adj. of lower quality.
• adj. of lower rank.
• adj. located below.
• adj. (botany) Situated below some other organ; said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below…
• adj. (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract; anterior.
• adj. (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
• adj. (astronomy) Below the horizon.
• n. a person of lower stature to another.

keister

• n. (slang) The anus or buttocks.
• n. (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
• n. (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
• v. (slang) To conceal something in one's rectum.

layabout

• n. A lazy person.

laze

• n. Laziness.
• n. An instance of lazing.
• v. To be lazy, waste time.
• v. To pass time relaxing.
• n. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

loaf

• n. (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
• n. Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
• n. (Cockney rhyming slang) Shortened from "loaf of bread", the brain or the head (mainly in the phrase use…
• n. A solid block of soap, from which standard bars are cut.
• v. (intransitive) To do nothing, to be idle.
• v. (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread).

loafer

• n. An idle person.
• n. A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.
• n. (Western US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.

loll

• v. (intransitive) To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw oneself down; to lie at ease.
• v. (transitive) To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
• v. (intransitive) To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.

lowlife

• n. (derogatory) An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a…

mooch

• v. (Britain) To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.
• v. To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.
• v. (Britain) To steal or filch.
• n. One who mooches; a moocher.

nates

• n. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals;…
• n. The buttocks.
• n. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

nonworker

• n. One who does not work.

obtain

• v. (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
• v. (intransitive) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.

posterior

• adj. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.
• adj. Following in order or in time.
• adj. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
• adj. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
• n. (euphemistic) The buttocks.

prat

• n. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
• adj. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.
• n. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
• n. (Britain, slang) A fool.
• n. (slang) The female genitals.

puke

• n. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
• v. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
• v. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure,…
• adj. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
• adj. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

punk

• n. (obsolete, countable) A prostitute; courtesan.
• n. (countable, uncommon) The bottom in a male-male sexual relationship, especially in prison.
• n. (countable) A juvenile delinquent; a young, petty criminal or trouble-maker; a hoodlum; a hooligan.
• n. (countable) Any worthless person.
• n. (uncountable) A social and musical movement rooted in rebelling against the established order.
• n. (uncountable) The music of the punk movement, known for short songs with electric guitars, strong drums,…
• n. (countable, sometimes as informal plural punx) A person who belongs to that movement and/or listens to…
• adj. Of, from, or resembling the punk subculture.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal) Weak or unwell; not in good health.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal) Inferior; bad.
• v. To pimp.
• v. To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
• v. To prank.
• v. (especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
• n. (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood,…
• n. (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.

rat

• n. (zoology) A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
• n. (informal) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles…
• n. (informal) A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
• n. (informal) An informant or snitch.
• n. (slang) A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
• n. Scab.
• n. (north-west London, slang) Vagina.
• n. A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
• v. (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn…
• v. (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
• n. (regional) A scratch or a score.
• n. (nautical, regional) A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn…
• v. (regional) To scratch or score.
• v. (regional, rare, obsolete) To tear, rip, rend.

rear

• v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
• v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
• v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
• v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
• v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
• v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
• v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
• v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
• v. (transitive) To move; stir.
• v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
• v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
• adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
• adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
• adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
• adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
• n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
• n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
• n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
• v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).

rotter

• n. A worthless, despicable person.
• n. (Britain, slang) A scoundrel.

rump

• n. The hindquarters of an animal.
• n. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
• n. The buttocks.
• n. Remnant, as in rump parliament.

seat

• n. Something to be sat upon.
• n. A location or site.
• n. The starting point of a fire.
• n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
• v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
• v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
• v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
• v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
• v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
• v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
• v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
• v. To put a seat or bottom in.

skunk

• n. Any of various small mammals, of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a…
• n. (slang) A despicable person.
• n. (slang) A walkover victory in sports or board games, as when the opposing side is unable to score. Compare…
• n. (cribbage) A win by 30 or more points.
• v. To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points.
• v. (cribbage) To win by 30 or more points.
• v. (intransitive, of beer) to go bad, to spoil.
• n. A member of a hybrid skinhead and punk subculture.
• n. (slang) Clipping of skunkweed (marijuana).
• n. Any of the strains of hybrids of Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica that may have THC levels exceeding…

sleazy

• adj. Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
• adj. Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.

slug

• n. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
• n. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
• n. A bullet (projectile).
• n. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
• n. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
• n. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of…
• n. (physics, rarely used) the Imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared…
• n. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
• n. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
• n. (television editing) A black screen.
• n. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed…
• n. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
• n. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
• n. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
• n. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
• n. A ship that sails slowly.
• n. A blow, usually with the fist.
• v. To drink quickly; to gulp.
• v. To down a shot.
• v. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
• v. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation…
• v. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
• v. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
• v. To make sluggish.

so-and-so

• n. A placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic name.
• n. Some thing or things.
• n. (euphemistic, derogatory) Used for epithets such as SOB, bastard, etc.

sponge

• n. (countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton…
• n. (countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often…
• n. (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
• n. (informal) A heavy drinker.
• n. (countable, uncountable) A type of light cake; sponge cake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, Britain) A type of steamed pudding.
• n. (slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak…
• n. (countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a contraceptive sponge.
• n. Any spongelike substance.
• n. A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered…
• n. The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
• v. (transitive) To get by imposition; to scrounge.
• v. (transitive) To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
• v. To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
• v. To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
• v. To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
• v. (intransitive) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.

stagnate

• v. To cease motion, activity, or progress.

stern

• adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
• adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
• n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
• n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
• n. The hinder part of anything.
• n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
• n. A bird, the black tern.

stinker

• n. A person who stinks.
• n. (slang) A contemptible person.
• n. (slang) Something difficult (e.g. a given puzzle) or unpleasant (e.g. negative review, nasty letter).
• n. (slang) Something of poor quality.
• n. Any of several species of large Antarctic petrels which feed on blubber and carrion and have an offensive…
• n. (slang) A chemist.

stinkpot

• n. An annoying, bad or undesirable person.
• n. The common musk turtle, a species of turtle from southeastern Canada, Sternotherus odoratus.
• n. The southern giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus.
• n. (slang) A motorboat (usually used by sailors).

tail

• n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
• n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
• n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
• n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
• n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• n. (mining) A tailing.
• n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
• v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
• v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
• v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
• v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• v. To pull or draw by the tail.
• adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
• n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tinny

• adj. Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
• adj. Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more…
• adj. Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.

tramp

• n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
• n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
• n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
• n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
• n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
• v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
• v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
• v. To hitchhike.
• v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
• v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

tush

• n. (now dialectal) A tusk.
• n. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
• n. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
• interj. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
• v. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
• n. (Britain, obsolete slang) Alternative form of tosheroon.

vagabond

• n. A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
• n. One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without…
• v. To roam, as a vagabond.
• adj. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

vagrant

• n. A person without a home; a wanderer.
• n. (ornithology) A bird found outside its species’ usual range.
• adj. Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
• adj. Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation.