grease Noun
( en noun)
Animal fat in a melted or soft state
(extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Synonyms
* (animal fat) fat, lard
Derived terms
* dirty grease
* elbow grease
* grease-box
* grease bush
* grease gun / grease-gun
* grease-monkey
* grease moth
* grease nipple
* greasepaint / grease-paint
* grease payment
* greaseproof
* greasewood
* greasiness
* greasy
* the squeaky wheel gets the grease
* greaseball
Verb
( greas)
To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
(informal) To bribe.
* Dryden
- the greased advocate that grinds the poor
* {{quote-book, 2008, title=With Lyon in Missouri, author=Byron Archibald Dunn
, passage=Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred.}}
* {{quote-book, 2009, title=GOG - an End Time Mystery, author=Dan Richardson
, passage=His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty.}}
(transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- ''To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
(slang) To kill, murder.
- Fat cats who can't be greased by the mob's money are greased the hard way.
(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Synonyms
* (put grease or fat on) lard
* (slang for kill or murder) bump off, hit, whack
Derived terms
* greaser
* grease the hand
* grease the wheels
* grease someone's palm
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scum English
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
(uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
(uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
(uncountable, slang, chiefly US) semen
(countable, derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
(countable, derogatory, slang) police officer(s)
Synonyms
* (layer of impurities) dross, impurities
* (layer of impurities on molten metal) cinder, scoriae, slag
* (person considered reprehensible) bastard
Related terms
* scumbag
* scummy
Verb
(scumm)
To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
To remove (something) as scum.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
*:Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came; / Some stird the molten owre with ladles great.
To become covered with scum.
*1769 , Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper , pp.321-322:
*:Take the smallest Cucumbers you can get, and as free from Spots as possible, put them into a strong Salt and Water for nine or ten Days, or 'till they are quite Yellow, and stir them twice a Day at least, or they will scum over, and grow soft
(obsolete) To scour (the land, sea etc.).
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*:SOo by Merlyns aduys ther were sente fore rydars to skumme the Countreye / & they mette with the fore rydars of the north / and made hem to telle whiche wey the hooste cam / and thenne they told it to Arthur / and by kyng Ban and Bors counceill they lete brenne and destroye alle the contrey afore them there they shold ryde
*Milton
*:Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
(obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
*1815 , Rudolf Ackerman and Frederic Shoberl, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics :
*:A great majority of the members are scummed together from the Jacobinical dregs of former periods of the revolution.
To startscum or savescum.
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