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1. academicize, v. View full entry 1846
...intr. To engage in academic discourse, thought, or analysis. Usu. somewhat depreciative. rare....
2. ad hoc, v. View full entry 1960
...intr. To act or respond on an ad hoc basis, rather than in accordance with general long-term strategies; to improvise....
3. baffle, v. View full entry 1548
...To subject to public disgrace or infamy; spec. to disgrace a perjured knight with infamy. Obs....
4. bang, v.1 View full entry ?c1550
...trans. To strike violently with a resounding blow; to thump, thrash....
5. bellow, v. View full entry c1000
...prop. To roar as a bull, or as a cow when excited. (Ordinarily, a cow lows.)...
6. blackleg, v. View full entry 1791
...trans. With it. Prob.: to make a living by swindling or other dishonest practices. Cf. blackleg2. Obs.rare....
7. bray, v.1 View full entry a1300
...intr. To cry out, to utter a loud harsh cry; esp. of grief or pain. Obs....
8. caterwaul, v. View full entry c1386
...intr. Of cats: To make the noise proper to them at rutting time....
9. coin, v.1 View full entry c1330
...trans. To make (money) by stamping metal....
10. corporatize, v. View full entry 1947
...trans. To make corporate by introducing or imposing the structures, practices, or values associated with a large business corporation; to commercialize; (hence) (sometimes depreciative) to deprive of independence or...
11. dip, v. View full entry c975
...To put down or let down temporarily or partially in or into a liquid, or the like, or the vessel containing it (usually with the notion of wetting,...
12. Disneyfy, v. View full entry 1965
...trans. To alter in a way considered characteristic of Disney films, cartoons, or theme parks; to romanticize, sanitize, or simplify....
13. fiddle, v. View full entry 1377
...intr. To play the fiddle or violin; now only in familiar or contemptuous use. Also fig....
14. financier, v. View full entry 1800
...intr. To play the part of a financier; to conduct financial operations. Chiefly in contemptuous use; now often (esp. in U.S.), to swindle, cheat. Also quasi-trans. ...
15. fling, v. View full entry 1300
...To move with haste or violence from or towards an object; to go or run violently or hastily; to dash, rush....
16. fuckee, v. View full entry c1890
...trans. and intr. In (freq. depreciative) representations of pidgin English: = fuck1....
17. give, v. View full entry a855
...To hand over (a thing) as a present; to confer gratuitously the ownership of (some possession) on another person (with or without actual delivery of the object)....
18. hot-gospel, v. View full entry 1952
...trans. and intr. To advocate or acclaim fanatically; spec. (of an evangelist) to preach fervently or zealously....
19. † Hottentot, v. View full entry 1806
...intr. To become or live as a person without civilization or culture. Cf. Hottentot2....
20. jabber, v. View full entry 1499
...intr. To talk rapidly and indistinctly or unintelligibly; to speak volubly and with little sense; to chatter, gabble, prattle. Often applied, in contempt or derision, to the speaking of a language...
