| BLAGUE | • blague n. Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug. • BLAGUE n. (French) humbug. |
| BRIGUE | • brigue n. (Obsolete) Intrigue; secretive machinations. • brigue v. (Obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods. • BRIGUE v. (French) to intrigue. |
| BROGUE | • brogue n. A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent… • brogue n. A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips. • brogue n. (Dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather. |
| CANGUE | • cangue n. A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used… • CANGUE n. (Portuguese) a wooden collar used to punish criminals in China, also CANG. |
| DENGUE | • dengue n. An acute febrile disease of the (sub)tropics caused by the Dengue virus, a flavivirus, transmitted by… • DENGUE n. (Swahili) an acute tropical epidemic fever, aka breakbone fever. |
| DROGUE | • drogue n. (Whaling) A floating object attached to the end of a harpoon line to slow a whale down and prevent it from diving. • drogue n. (Nautical) A type of bag pulled behind a boat to stop it from broaching to. • drogue n. (Aeronautics) A conical parachute used as a brake for some kinds of aircraft, or as a means of extracting… |
| FEAGUE | • feague v. To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger… • feague v. (Obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive. • feague v. (Obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’. |
| GANGUE | • gangue n. (Mining) The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. • GANGUE n. (French) the worthless rock in which valuable minerals are found. |
| LANGUE | • langue n. (Linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures… • LANGUE n. (French) a language viewed as an abstract system used by a speech-community, in contrast to the actual linguistic behaviour (parole) of individuals. |
| LEAGUE | • league n. A group or association of cooperating members. • league n. (Sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship. • league n. (Informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league. |
| MORGUE | • morgue n. (Archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance. • morgue n. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly… • morgue n. (Archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper. |
| PLAGUE | • plague n. (Often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused… • plague n. (Pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease. • plague n. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. |
| TONGUE | • tongue n. The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved… • tongue n. (Countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows). • tongue n. Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth… |