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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 20:04:28 GMT
to slug somebody
Wrong usage, spaceneedle! Shark is not a verb in your example.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 20, 2010 22:10:44 GMT
You must stop dogging us with pedantry K2!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 22:17:13 GMT
You want me to clam up?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 22:19:57 GMT
And I never took you to be the mousey type ;D
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Post by fumobici on Apr 20, 2010 22:30:13 GMT
Still haven't cowed him into sheepish* silence.
*Yes I know, I know, no need to bitch or crab, just horsing around.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 22:35:59 GMT
But they say a leopard cannot change it's spots.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 22:36:36 GMT
Why am I being such a cow?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 22:38:24 GMT
Better a cow than a snake in the grass I suppose.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 22:40:05 GMT
I'm just kidding around
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Post by spaceneedle on Apr 20, 2010 23:27:57 GMT
to slug somebody Wrong usage, spaceneedle! Shark is not a verb in your example. I know... it was a lame attempt at humor.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2010 2:35:48 GMT
So far:
to worm your way out
to fly away
to badger somebody
to squirrel something away
to rat on somebody
to ferret out a hidden something
to dog someone's footsteps
to birdie in golf (play a hole in one stroke under par)
to bitch and moan
to crane your neck
to ape another's behavior
to horse around
to weasel your way out
to monkey around
to pussyfootaround
to cod someone (that's an Irish expression meaning to play a joke)....
to seal with a kiss
to fish for information
to swallow ones pride
to wolf down food
to pig out
to crow about your success
To bat one's brains out
To cock a gun at someone
To hawk a newspaper
to pony up (I think that one is mostly AE, and comes from racetrack lingo) to parrot the party line (UK election special)
To worm your way into this discussion!
to lionize a celebrity
to cow someone with a fierce look
to cat around
to bear great hardship
to bat one's eyelashes
Birders bird birds. You can chicken out of scary prospects. And of course you can ... er ... goose someone. Many of us have been hounded by a credit agency … Joan swanned into the room
To duck underneath.
To quail in fear.
To crab at
To fawn over.
To leech off.
To carp about
to bug somebody
to jaywalk
to bullshit
to steer clear
to skunk someone in a card game
to fox someone
to outfox someone
to crawfish on a deal
to slug somebody
kidding around
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2010 2:36:15 GMT
To buck the system
to flounder around
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2010 7:23:44 GMT
I remembered this thread as I was mousing over a link this morning.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2010 2:12:59 GMT
to lark away the weekend
(please note that all the answers from 1 through 39 are listed in Reply #40)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2010 21:09:08 GMT
Damn, I was thinking that "to flounder" hadn't been found, but checking here showed that Bixa found it at #41, albeit belatedly.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 30, 2010 3:55:03 GMT
What about "to bamboozle", from the root word, Bambi.
It means batting your big brown eyes at someone in order to cheat that person.
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Post by komsomol on Nov 8, 2010 17:57:25 GMT
What about vegetal verbs?
to seed a cloud
to leaf through a book
to plant a tree
to bloom as you grow up
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2010 18:27:15 GMT
Hmmmm.... I'm trying to figure out of to graze qualifies. Since it is made out of a vegetal word, I would think so.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2010 0:43:57 GMT
to vegetate
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2010 6:20:31 GMT
to sprout
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2010 6:46:16 GMT
These are not as much fun as the animal verbs, as mostly they're pretty conventional.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2010 6:50:28 GMT
Should we branch out to something else then?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2010 7:17:37 GMT
I'd just as lief.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 9, 2010 13:31:35 GMT
Ah! I've twigged it...
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2010 16:41:05 GMT
This is hard. I'm sapped already.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 9, 2010 17:06:53 GMT
You simply don't have enough stamena Bixa
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 9, 2010 17:15:55 GMT
Hang on. That's not a verb.... ;D
Perhaps I've stemmed the tide of verbs?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 9, 2010 17:32:27 GMT
You simply don't have enough stamena Bixa ;D Yeth, that anther wath not correct. Get back on track or I'll stalk you!
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 9, 2010 17:34:43 GMT
You simply don't have enough stamena Bixa ;D Yeth, that anther wath not correct. Get back on track or I'll stalk you! Ahh! I'm rooted to the spot.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2010 18:13:56 GMT
Are you sapping each other's efforts?
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