What is the meaning of TORMENT. Phrases containing TORMENT
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Most kids purchased their sweets from a corner shop, sweet shop, tuck shop, etc; in one school they bought from the Batty Fat Woman Shop. The shop still exists, although the proprietor is not the same Fat Woman who was undoubtably Batty. She was very, um, large, pale, unnecessarily ugly and she was constantly suspicious of everyone stealing stuff. Contributor says that when she thinks on it now, since we were school children, that was probably wise. She spoke in a very thick Yorkshire accent, which of course was subject to years of torment and mocking as us south-western school children thought every word she uttered sounded hilarious. (ed: she also sent the address but thought we ought not publish it!)
Foul smelling individual with mentally subnormal tendencies often less well off financially than their tormentors. Derived from a special needs GCSE equivalency course which involved the hapless participants riding around the playground on rusted motorcycles with ludicrously big helmets often giving the rider's head an egg like appearance. Also jutter,jupveous and jup. Still often heard in drinking establishments.
Scrag is slang for execute by hanging or strangulation. Scrag is slang for to seize someone roughly by the neck. Scrag is British slang for to torment, tease, attack.Scrag is British slang for the neck.Scrag is American slang for murder or kill.Scrag is rugby football slang for a rough tackle.
to pester or bother someone
Verb. 1. To tease, annoy, torment. E.g."She's been ragging me about my stupid mistake all day." 2. Of vehicles or machinery, to push to the limits of use, to abuse. E.g."I got a speeding ticket yesterday when I was stopped for ragging my beaten up old Fiat at 120."Noun. A newspaper.
A generic term, "guppy" was a bit of wild card insult that could mean almost anything derogatory — thick, stupid, unpopular, unlikable, ugly etc. The comeback was that the real meaning of guppy was a pregnant fish so, when insulted thusly I would adopt a sort of intellectual and moral superiority and sneer "I am *not* a pregnant fish" at my tormentors. When I was 12 (and only just out of the habit of using the word guppy as an insult) I bought myself some tropical fish and was most stunned to find that a guppy *was* actually a fish, though not neccessarily a pregnant one.
to vex; to jade or torment
Used to torment and harrass girls in puberty with newly developing breasts.
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An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels.
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A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.
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Torment; pain.
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
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An executioner.
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One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.
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To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
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One who tortures; a tormentor.
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Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.
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Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating.
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A woman who torments.
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To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.
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One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.
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Torture; torment.
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Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
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To put into great agitation.
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To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
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One who torments himself.
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