Synonyms of the word

fag

• n. (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, colloquial, dated in US and Canada) A cigarette.
• n. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) The worst part or end of a thing.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A chore; an arduous and tiresome task.
• n. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) In many British boarding schools, a younger student acting as…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To droop; to tire.
• v. (Britain, education, archaic, colloquial) For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students…
• v. (Britain, archaic) To work hard, especially on menial chores.
• n. (vulgar, offensive) A homosexual man.
• n. (US, vulgar, offensive) An annoying person.

assist

• v. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
• v. (archaic) To attend (with at).
• v. To help.
• v. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
• v. (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
• n. A helpful action or an act of giving.
• n. (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals.

attend

• v. (archaic, transitive) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To listen (to, unto).
• v. (intransitive) To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look…
• v. (transitive) To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
• v. (transitive) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings;…
• v. (intransitive, law) To go to (a place) for some purpose (with at).
• v. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
• v. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
• v. Alternative form of atend ("to kindle").

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.

cigaret

• n. Dated form of cigarette.

cigarette

• n. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
• v. (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.

dig

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole…
• v. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
• v. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
• v. (figuratively) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
• v. To thrust; to poke.
• v. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball.
• n. An archeological investigation.
• n. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.
• n. A thrust; a poke.
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.
• n. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
• v. (slang) To understand or show interest in.
• v. (slang) To appreciate, or like.

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

faggot

• n. (offensive, vulgar, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
• n. (offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
• n. (rare, dated in US) A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
• n. (chiefly Britain, collective) A bundle of sticks tied together. (Some sources specify that a faggot is…
• n. (obsolete) Burdensome baggage.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, colloquial, pejorative, obsolete) A shrewish woman.
• n. (chiefly Britain) A meatball made from pork, see.
• n. (Britain, historical) A faggot voter.
• v. Alternative form of fagot.

fagot

• n. Alternative form of faggot (bundle of sticks).
• n. Alternative form of faggot (shrivelled old woman).
• n. Alternative form of faggot (a gay person, particularly a man).
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
• v. (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.

fairy

• n. (uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
• n. A mythical being with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in…
• n. (Northern England, US, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
• n. Two species of hummingbird in the genus Heliothryx.

fatigue

• n. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
• n. (often in the plural) A menial task(s), especially in the military.
• n. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material.
• v. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
• v. (transitive, cooking) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
• v. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
• v. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result…

grind

• v. To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
• v. To shape with the force of friction.
• v. (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
• v. To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
• v. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
• v. (sports) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
• v. To oppress, hold down or weaken.
• v. (slang) To rotate the hips erotically.
• v. (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed…
• v. (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
• v. To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
• v. To instill through repetitive teaching.
• v. (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
• v. (slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
• n. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
• n. Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
• n. A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
• n. A tedious task.
• n. A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
• n. (archaic, slang) One who studies hard; a swot.
• n. Grindcore (subgenre of heavy metal).
• n. A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.

indispose

• v. (transitive) To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
• v. (transitive) To make indisposed, or slightly unwell.
• v. (transitive) To disincline.

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

labor

• n. American standard spelling of labour.
• v. American standard spelling of labour.

labour

• n. Effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
• n. That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
• n. (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour…
• n. (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
• n. The act of a mother giving birth.
• n. The time period during which a mother gives birth.
• n. (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
• n. An old measure of land area in Mexico and Texas, approximately 177 acres.
• v. (intransitive) To toil, to work.
• v. (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
• v. To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially…
• v. To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
• v. (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.

moil

• v. To toil, to work hard.
• v. To churn continually.
• v. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.
• n. Hard work.
• n. Confusion, turmoil.
• n. A spot; a defilement.
• n. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching…
• n. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object…
• n. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

nance

• n. (slang) A male homosexual.
• v. (uncommon, slang) To move in a prissy or stereotypically gay way.

outwear

• v. To wear out.
• v. To outlast; to survive longer than.

pansy

• n. A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
• n. A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
• n. (derogatory, colloquial, dated) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
• n. (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
• adj. Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
• adj. Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.

poof

• interj. Onomatopoeia indicating a cloud of smoke or wind; caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, colloquial) A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
• n. The product of flatulence, or the sound of breaking wind.
• v. To vanish or disappear.
• v. To break wind; to fart.

poove

• n. (slang) A male homosexual.

pouf

• n. (historical) A headdress for women popular in 18th century France.
• n. A high hair style for women consisting of a roll or pad of hair, worn up.
• n. (dressmaking) Part of an item of clothing consisting of gathered fabric in a bunch.
• n. A low cushioned seat with no back; a padded footstool.
• n. A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
• n. A ball of fabric (such as nylon monofilament netting) used for washing (as an alternative to a flannel,…
• n. (dated) A small saddle cushion worn atop the buttocks (as a fashion trend – similar to a bustle).
• n. Alternative form of puff.
• n. Alternative form of poof.
• v. (transitive) To make poufy or bouffant.
• interj. Onomatopoeia indicating a cloud of smoke or wind; caused by a deflating object, or a magical disappearance.

queen

• n. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
• n. The wife or widow of a king.
• n. (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
• n. (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a…
• n. A powerful or forceful female person.
• n. (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (Compare drag queen and street queen. See…
• n. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
• n. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
• n. A queen olive.
• n. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp.).
• v. To make a queen.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
• v. (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
• v. (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.

queer

• adj. (now slightly dated) Weird, odd or different; whimsical.
• adj. (slightly dated) Slightly unwell (mainly in to feel queer).
• adj. (colloquial) Homosexual.
• adj. (colloquial) Not heterosexual: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, etc.
• adj. (broadly) Pertaining to sexual behaviour or identity which does not conform to conventional heterosexual…
• n. (colloquial) A person who is or appears homosexual, or who has homosexual qualities.
• n. (colloquial) A person of any non-heterosexual sexuality or sexual identity.
• n. (colloquial, vulgar, derogatory) General term of abuse, casting aspersions on target's sexuality; compare…
• n. (definite, with "the", informal, archaic) Counterfeit money.
• v. (transitive) To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To puzzle.
• v. (slang, dated) To ridicule; to banter; to rally.
• v. (slang, dated) To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil.
• v. (social sciences) To reevaluate or reinterpret (a work) with an eye to sexual orientation and/or to gender,…
• adv. Queerly.

serve

• n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
• v. (heading) To be effective.
• v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
• v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
• v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
• v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
• v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…

smoke

• n. (uncountable) The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
• n. (colloquial, countable) A cigarette.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.).
• n. (colloquial, countable, never plural) An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory,…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke…
• n. (uncountable) A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
• n. (military, uncountable) A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield…
• n. (baseball, slang) A fastball.
• v. (transitive) To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
• v. (intransitive) To give off smoke.
• v. To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume.
• v. (slang) To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully. Almost always in present participle form.
• v. (US, Canada, New Zealand, slang) To beat someone at something.
• v. (US, slang) To kill, especially with a gun.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
• v. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To ridicule to the face; to mock.
• v. To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
• v. To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
• v. To suffer severely; to be punished.
• v. (transitive, US military slang) To punish for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
• adj. Of the colour known as smoke.
• adj. Made of or with smoke.

tire

• v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
• v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
• v. (transitive) To bore.
• n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
• n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
• n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
• n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
• n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
• n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
• n. A tier, row, or rank.

toil

• n. labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
• n. trouble, strife.
• n. A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; usually in the plural.
• v. (intransitive) To labour; work.
• v. (intransitive) To struggle.
• v. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
• v. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

travail

• n. (archaic) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
• n. Specifically, the labor of childbirth.
• n. (obsolete, countable) An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
• n. (obsolete) The eclipse of a celestial object.
• n. Obsolete form of travel.
• n. Alternative form of travois (“a kind of sled”).
• v. To toil.
• v. To go through the labor of childbirth.

wear

• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off;…
• v. (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or…
• v. To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• v. To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or…
• v. To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• v. (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• v. (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due…
• v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue,…
• v. (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• v. (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed…
• n. (uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• n. (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• n. (uncountable) fashion.

weary

• adj. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
• adj. Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
• adj. Expressive of fatigue.
• adj. Causing weariness; tiresome.
• v. To make or to become weary.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.