tumbled English
Verb
(head)
(tumble)
tumble English
Noun
( en noun)
A fall.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
An act of sexual intercourse.
* John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
* 1979 , Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
- When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
Derived terms
* rough and tumble
* take a tumble
* tumble dryer
* tumbler
* give a tumble
Verb
(tumbl)
(lb) To fall end over end.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
:(Rowe)
To roll over and over.
*1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
*:The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
(lb) To have sexual intercourse.
(lb) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
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Derived terms
* tumble to
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tossed English
Verb
(head)
(toss)
toss English
Noun
( es)
A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
(cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
(British, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
- I couldn't give a toss about her.
Derived terms
* argue the toss
Verb
To throw with an initial upward direction.
- Toss it over here!
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
- to toss the head
* Addison
- He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.
To agitate; to make restless.
* Milton
- Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
To subject to trials; to harass.
* Herbert
- Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
- I'll toss you for it.
To discard: to toss out
- ''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
To stir or mix (a salad).
- to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.
(British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate
(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
- "Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
* 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , p. 258:
- John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .
* 2009 , , Red Dragon :
- Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
* 2011 , Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel :
- Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
- tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
- (Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
- to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar
- (Ascham)
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
See also
* tosser
* toss off
* toss in
* toss and turn
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