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Number of Pangrams: 2

Maximum Puzzle Score: 378

Number of Answers: 66

Points Needed for Genius: 265

Genius requires between 34 and 55 words. You need at least an 8-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangrams, you need 76% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangrams, you only need 68% of the remaining points to reach genius.

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How does this puzzle compare to other puzzles?

Today's score of 378 was in the 99th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on July 20, 2025.
The highest score ever was 537 on January 22, 2021.
The lowest score ever was 47 on March 27, 2023.

This puzzle's 66 possible answers rank it in the 96th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on July 20, 2025.
The highest number of answers was 81 on June 8, 2019.
The lowest number of answers was 16 on March 27, 2023.

It takes an 8-letter word for genius.
The last time this happened was on July 27, 2025.

Today's puzzle has an average word length of 6.2.
For all Bees, the average word length has been 5.3.



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The most common words in the Bee are:

  • noon 206
  • loll 201
  • toot 193
  • naan 176
  • nana 176
  • lilt 143
  • till 143
  • tilt 143
  • tint 138
  • mama 135
  • mamma 135
  • nene 135
  • acacia 130
  • acai 130
  • onto 127
  • toon 127
  • onion 123
  • anon 120
  • anal 119
  • olio 116
  • tact 114
  • boob 113
  • booboo 113
  • dodo 113
  • poop 112
  • baba 111
  • papa 111
  • lull 109
  • lulu 109
  • call 108
  • calla 108
  • mitt 108
  • ratatat 106
  • tart 106
  • tartar 106
  • attar 105
  • mono 105
  • moon 105
  • tatty 105
  • ammo 104
  • momma 104
  • tattoo 104
  • tutu 104
  • allay 103
  • ally 103
  • cocci 103
  • loon 101
  • epee 100
  • peep 100
  • roar 99


How long are words in the Bee?

There have been 104,822 answers ever accepted in the Bee - with 10,702 unique words.
Below are the distributions of the lengths of these words.



Valid dictionary words not in today's official answers

You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:

  • abba
  • abigail
  • abri
  • alba
  • albinal
  • alibiing
  • arriba
  • baal
  • bairn
  • balbriggan
  • ballgirl
  • bani
  • banian
  • baning
  • barbal
  • barbing
  • barilla
  • barning
  • biali
  • bibb
  • bibbing
  • biggin
  • bigging
  • bilging
  • binal
  • bing
  • biriani
  • birl
  • birling
  • birr
  • birring
  • blag
  • blagging
  • blain
  • blinging
  • brabbling
  • brail
  • brailing
  • brailling
  • brannigan
  • branning
  • brill
  • brin
  • brrr
  • gabba
  • gabling
  • galabia
  • gangbang
  • gangbanging
  • gibbing
  • grabbling
  • labara
  • labra
  • labral
  • liblab
  • libra
  • libri
  • nibbing
  • rabbin
  • rabbling

*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.

airbag

noun
  1. A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
  2. A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
  3. A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.

alibi

noun
  1. The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove being in another place when the alleged act was committed
verb
  1. To provide an alibi for.
  2. To provide an excuse for.

baaing

verb
  1. To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
noun
  1. The bleating of a sheep.

baba

noun
  1. A kind of sponge cake soaked in rum-flavoured syrup.
  2. (esp. among people of East European ancestry) A grandmother.
  3. An old woman, especially a traditional old woman from an eastern European culture.
  4. (esp. among people of Indian ancestry) A father.
  5. (Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism) A holy man, a spiritual leader.
  6. A baby, child.
  7. In baby talk, often used for a variety of words beginning with b, such as bottle or blanket.

babbling

verb
  1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds
  2. To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
  3. To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.
  4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.
  5. To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.
  6. To reveal; to give away (a secret).
noun
  1. A stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
  2. Sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
  3. Idle senseless talk; prattle.
  4. A confused murmur, as of a stream.

bagging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To put into a bag.
  2. To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
  3. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
  4. To furnish or load with a bag.
  5. (African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
  6. (African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  7. To criticise sarcastically.
  8. To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
  9. To fit with a bag to collect urine.
  10. To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
  11. To hang like an empty bag.
  12. To drop away from the correct course.
  13. To swell with arrogance.
  14. To become pregnant.
noun
  1. The act of putting anything into a bag.
  2. Cloth or other material for bags.
  3. Use of BVM to ventilate a patient.
  4. Peak bagging

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Bootstrap aggregating

bail

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
  2. Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
  3. The person providing such payment.
  4. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
  5. A person who bails water out of a boat.
  6. Custody; keeping.
verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To exit quickly.
  2. To fail to meet a commitment.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
  2. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
  3. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
  4. A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
  5. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
  6. One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
  7. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
verb
  1. To secure the head of a cow during milking.

Etymology 4

verb
  1. To confine.
  2. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  3. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)

bailing

verb
  1. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
  2. To release a person under such guarantee.
  3. To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
  4. To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
  5. To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
  6. To set free; to deliver; to release.
verb
  1. To exit quickly.
  2. To fail to meet a commitment.
verb
  1. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
verb
  1. To confine.
  2. To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
  3. To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up. (Usually with up.)
noun
  1. The act by which something is bailed.

baling

verb
  1. To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
noun
  1. A collection of material packaged into a bale.

ball

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
  2. A round or ellipsoidal object.
  3. (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.
  4. A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  5. A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
verb
  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  6. To play basketball.
  7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain
interjection
  1. An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A formal dance.
  2. A very enjoyable time.

balling

verb
  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To have sexual intercourse with.
  4. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  5. (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
  6. To play basketball.
  7. To punish by affixing a ball and chain

banal

adjective
  1. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.
  2. (history) Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

banana

noun
  1. An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
  2. The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  3. A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
  4. (mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.
  5. A banana equivalent dose.
  6. A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
  7. The penis.
  8. A banana kick.
adjective
  1. Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

bang

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sudden percussive noise.
  2. A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
  3. An explosion.
  4. The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.
  5. A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
  6. An act of sexual intercourse.
  7. An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
  8. An explosive product.
  9. An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).
  10. (Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
  11. Strong smell (of)
  12. A thrill.
verb
  1. To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  2. To hit hard.
  3. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  5. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  6. To inject intravenously.
adverb
  1. Right, directly.
  2. Precisely.
  3. With a sudden impact.
interjection
  1. A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.
noun
  1. Hair hanging over the forehead.
  2. A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.
noun
  1. Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent.

banging

verb
  1. To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
  2. To hit hard.
  3. To engage in sexual intercourse.
  4. (with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
  5. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
  6. To inject intravenously.
noun
  1. The action of the verb to bang.
adjective
  1. Excellent, brilliant, very exciting, top, great.
  2. Attractive; sexually appealing.
  3. Huge; great in size.

banning

verb
  1. To summon; to call out.
  2. To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
  3. To curse; to execrate.
  4. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
  5. To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
noun
  1. The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

barb

Etymology 1

noun
  1. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
  2. A hurtful or disparaging remark.
  3. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  4. Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
  5. A horse.
  6. One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  7. Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
  8. Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish), found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
  9. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  10. A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  11. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
  12. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
  13. A bit for a horse.
  14. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
verb
  1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
  2. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
  3. To cut (hair).
  4. To shave or dress the beard of.
  5. To clip; to mow.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A barbiturate.

barbarian

noun
  1. A non-Greek or a non-Roman.
  2. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
  3. Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
  4. A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
  5. A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
  6. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.
  7. A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.
adjective
  1. Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.

bargain

noun
  1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
  2. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
  3. An item purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price
  4. A gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.
  5. The thing stipulated or purchased.
verb
  1. To make a bargain; to make a deal or contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate
  2. To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade

bargaining

verb
  1. To make a bargain; to make a deal or contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate
  2. To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade
noun
  1. The act of one who bargains.

barging

verb
  1. To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner.
  2. To push someone.

baring

verb
  1. To uncover; to reveal.
noun
  1. The act by which something is laid bare.

barn

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
  2. A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres.
  3. An arena.
verb
  1. To lay up in a barn.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A child.

barraging

verb
  1. To direct a barrage at.

barring

verb
  1. To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  2. To prohibit.
  3. To lock or bolt with a bar.
  4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
noun
  1. (collective) Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
  2. The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
  3. The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
  4. Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
  5. The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
preposition
  1. Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of.

bilabial

noun
  1. A speech sound articulated with both lips.
adjective
  1. Articulated with both lips.

bill

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
  2. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  3. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  4. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  5. The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
verb
  1. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
  2. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  3. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
verb
  1. To peck
  2. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

Etymology 3

noun
  1. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
  2. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
  3. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  4. A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
  5. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  6. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  7. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
  8. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
  9. A set of items presented together.
verb
  1. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  2. To charge; to send a bill to.

Etymology 4

noun
  1. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

billing

verb
  1. To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
verb
  1. To peck
  2. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
verb
  1. To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  2. To charge; to send a bill to.
noun
  1. Amounts billed.
  2. Accounts receivable.
  3. The tracking of bills and amounts owed; the department within an institution or business that deals with the tracking of bills and amounts owed.
  4. The act or situation of including someone or something to those that make up a complete list.

binging

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption.

Etymology 2

verb
  1. To go; walk; come; run
verb
  1. Making the sound of a bounce
  2. To bounce

binning

verb
  1. To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
  2. To throw away, reject, give up.
  3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
  4. To place into a bin for storage.
noun
  1. A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often the central value. Wp
  2. The process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units. Wp
  3. The categorization of finished products based on their characteristics. Wp
  4. The process of combining charge from adjacent pixels in a CCD image sensor during readout.

blab

noun
  1. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
  2. Gossip; prattle.
verb
  1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

blabbing

verb
  1. To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
noun
  1. Gossip; the telling of tales.

blaring

verb
  1. To make a loud sound.
  2. To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
noun
  1. Any loud noise, such as from an elephant.

blin

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Cessation; end.
verb
  1. To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A blintz.

bling

noun
  1. Ostentatious display of richness or style.
noun
  1. Shiny jewelry that displays wealth, such as a diamond ring or a stylish gold necklace or bracelet.

blini

noun
  1. A small pancake, of Russian origin, made from buckwheat flour; traditionally served with melted butter, sour cream and caviar or smoked salmon.

brag

noun
  1. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
  2. The thing which is boasted of.
  3. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
verb
  1. To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
  2. To boast of.
adjective
  1. Excellent; first-rate.
  2. Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
adverb
  1. Proudly; boastfully

bragging

verb
  1. To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.
  2. To boast of.
noun
  1. The act of one who brags.

brain

noun
  1. The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
  2. An intelligent person.
  3. (in the plural) Intellect.
  4. By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
  5. Oral sex.
  6. Mind.
verb
  1. To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
  2. To strike (someone) on the head.
  3. To destroy; to put an end to.
  4. To conceive in the mind; to understand.

braining

verb
  1. To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
  2. To strike (someone) on the head.
  3. To destroy; to put an end to.
  4. To conceive in the mind; to understand.

bran

noun
  1. The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
  2. The European carrion crow.

briar

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
  2. Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
  2. A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

bribing

verb
  1. To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.
  2. To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
noun
  1. Bribery.

brig

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
  2. A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. Bridge.

Etymology 3

noun
  1. Brigadier.

bring

Etymology 1

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  2. To supply or contribute.
  3. To occasion or bring about.
  4. To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  5. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  6. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
  7. To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

Etymology 2

interjection
  1. The sound of a telephone ringing.

bringing

verb
  1. (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
  2. To supply or contribute.
  3. To occasion or bring about.
  4. To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
  5. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  6. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
  7. To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
noun
  1. The act by which something is brought.

brining

verb
  1. To preserve food in a salt solution.
  2. To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.

gabbing

verb
  1. To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
  2. To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
  3. To speak or tell falsely.

gabbling

verb
  1. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
  2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
noun
  1. Rapid, confused speech.

garb

Etymology 1

noun
  1. Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  2. A type of dress or clothing.
  3. A guise, external appearance.
verb
  1. To dress in garb.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A wheat sheaf.
  2. A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.

garbing

verb
  1. To dress in garb.

garbling

verb
  1. To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert
  2. To make false by mutilation or addition
  3. To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt
noun
  1. The act by which something is garbled or confused.
  2. The process of removing the unwanted substances present in crude drugs after drying.

gibing

verb
  1. Alternative spelling of gybe
  2. Alternative spelling of jibe
noun
  1. A gibe.

glib

Etymology 1

verb
  1. To make glib.
adjective
  1. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.
  2. Smooth or slippery.
  3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly worn in Ireland.

Etymology 3

verb
  1. To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.

grab

Etymology 1

noun
  1. A sudden snatch at something.
  2. An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
  3. A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
  4. A sound bite.
  5. That which is seized.
  6. A simple card game.
verb
  1. To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
  2. To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
  3. To restrain someone; to arrest.
  4. To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
  5. To quickly collect or retrieve.
  6. To consume something quickly.
  7. To take the opportunity of.

Etymology 2

noun
  1. A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.

grabbing

verb
  1. To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
  2. To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
  3. To restrain someone; to arrest.
  4. To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
  5. To quickly collect or retrieve.
  6. To consume something quickly.
  7. To take the opportunity of.
noun
  1. The act of one who grabs; a snatching.

labia

noun
  1. The folds of tissue at the opening of the vulva, at either side of the vagina.
noun
  1. A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin either side of the vulva.
  2. The lip of a labiate corolla.
  3. The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.

labial

noun
  1. A consonant articulated by the lips.
  2. An organ pipe having a lip that influences its sound.
  3. Any of the scales bordering the mouth opening of a reptile.
adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to the lips or labia.
  2. Articulated by the lips, as the consonants b, m and w.
  3. Of an incisor or canine, on the side facing the lips. See mesial.
  4. Furnished with lips.

librarian

noun
  1. The keeper, manager of a library.
  2. One who cares for the publications, files etc. in a library, whether staff or volunteer.
  3. A person who processes and organizes information.

nabbing

verb
  1. To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
  2. To grab or snatch something.

nibbling

verb
  1. To eat with small, quick bites.
  2. To bite lightly.
  3. To consume gradually.
  4. To find fault; to cavil.
noun
  1. The act or sound of one who nibbles.
  2. A small adjustment or encroachment.

rabbi

noun
  1. A Jewish scholar or teacher of halacha (Jewish law), capable of making halachic decisions.
  2. A Jew who is or is qualified to be the leader of a Jewish congregation.
  3. (police) A senior officer who acts as a mentor.

ragbag

noun
  1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.

ribbing

verb
  1. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
  2. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
  3. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
  4. To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
noun
  1. The action of the verb to rib.
  2. A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
  3. An instance of teasing.

airball

noun
  1. A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.
verb
  1. To throw an airball

birria

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