Fiend - English meaning

noun

A person who is addicted to a particular substance, typically an illegal drug.

Usage examples:

A former heroin addict

noun

A person who is unable to stop doing or using something

noun

A person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject, or pastime.

Usage examples:

A crossword aficionado

noun

Someone who is very interested in and enthusiastic about a particular subject

Usage examples:

A club for model railway aficionados, an aficionado of french cinema

noun

A person who appreciates and recognizes the full worth of something.

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Collectors and appreciators of art and culture

noun

An undercarriage with four or six wheels pivoted beneath the end of a railway vehicle.

Usage examples:

Another was an amusing story about a group of french airmen who would ‘borrow’ a railway bogie to g…

noun

A low framework on wheels, put under another vehicle such as a rail carriage so it can move

Usage examples:

It is believed that an object fell on the track and derailed the bogie., as we pulled out of the st…

noun

A carriage on a train in which passengers sit

noun

A yellowish-beige colour.

Usage examples:

A buff envelope

verb

Polish (something).

Usage examples:

He buffed the glass until it gleamed

adjective

(of a person or their body) in good physical shape with well-developed muscles.

Usage examples:

The driver was a buff blond named march

noun

A malevolent spirit or person.

Usage examples:

Margaret calls him ‘cacodemon’ and ‘devil’, and any unity that the characters have on stage is temp…

noun

An expert judge in matters of taste.

Usage examples:

A connoisseur of music

noun

A person who has expert knowledge of something, esp. an art, food, or drink, and is qualified to judge and appreciate its quality

Usage examples:

The mushrooms had the chewy, savory flavor preferred by connoisseurs.

noun

Someone who has a lot of experience of something and knows a lot about it

Usage examples:

A connoisseur of fine wine, this product will be marketed at connoisseurs.

noun

An evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell.

Usage examples:

He was possessed by an evil demon

noun

Variant spelling of daemon2.

noun

A police officer.

noun

(in christian and jewish belief) the supreme spirit of evil; satan.

Usage examples:

Belief in the devil

verb

Act as a junior assistant for a barrister or other professional.

Usage examples:

There is the possibility of devilling for fellow members of the bar

noun

An evil being, often represented in human form but with a tail and horns

Usage examples:

What the devil are you doing?

noun

A person who is very interested in and enthusiastic about someone or something.

Usage examples:

A devotee of lewis carroll

noun

A person who is very interested in a particular activity or subject.

Usage examples:

A sports car enthusiast

noun

Someone who is very interested in and involved with a particular subject or activity

Usage examples:

A computer-games enthusiast

noun

An apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation.

Usage examples:

A couple of ceiling fans, lazily turning

verb

Cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air.

Usage examples:

He fanned himself with his hat

noun

A person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing.

Usage examples:

Football fans

noun

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.

Usage examples:

Religious fanatics

adjective

Filled with or expressing excessive zeal.

Usage examples:

His eyes had a fanatic iciness

noun

A person whose strong admiration for something is extreme and unreasonable

Usage examples:

A fitness/exercise fanatic, her devotion to her pets was fanatical.

noun

A person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas.

Usage examples:

Followers of nietzsche

noun

Someone who obeys or supports another person or that person’s ideas

Usage examples:

The newly elected governor appeared overcome with emotion as he thanked his followers., they are en…

noun

A company or product that only makes new changes, enters a market, etc. after other companies or products have done this first

Usage examples:

Law firms are not leaders in business, they are followers., our analysis supports the view of germa…

noun

A very unusual and unexpected event or situation.

Usage examples:

The teacher says the accident was a total freak

verb

Behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs.

Usage examples:

He freaked out and smashed the place up

adjective

Extremely unusual or unlikely

Usage examples:

She died in a freak automobile accident., a freak midsummer hailstorm caught us all by surprise., m…

noun

Salted or smoked meat from the upper part of a pig's leg.

Usage examples:

Thin slices of ham

verb

Overact.

Usage examples:

She hammed it up for the cameras

proper noun

(in the bible) a son of noah (gen. 10:1), traditional ancestor of the hamites.

noun

A demon in the form of a dog.

Usage examples:

Players will encounter hellhounds, werewolves, vampires, hobbits, ghosts, barbarians and demigorgons.

noun

A small, mischievous devil or sprite.

Usage examples:

You say, ‘i've never seen any imps, sprites or goblins in this whole neighborhood!’

verb

Repair a damaged feather in (the wing or tail of a trained hawk) by attaching part of a new feather.

abbreviation

Manx pound(s).

noun

A male demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women.

Usage examples:

The earliest literary sources have merlin as a wonder child, born of an incubus (a male demon), and…

noun

A male evil spirit who is believed to have sex with women while they are sleeping

Usage examples:

They are powerless to throw off the incubus of the past.

noun

A partner in a sexual or romantic relationship outside marriage.

Usage examples:

I think she had a secret lover

noun

A partner in a romantic or physical relationship

Usage examples:

The remote island is ideal for nature lovers.

noun

A person exhibiting extremely wild or violent behaviour.

Usage examples:

When he sits in front of a playstation he transforms into a karate-choppin' maniac

combining form

Forming nouns corresponding to words ending in -mania.

Usage examples:

Kleptomaniac

noun

A person who has an unusually strong interest in an activity or subject

Usage examples:

My brother is a maniac when it comes to football., a homicidal maniac

noun

A fruit consisting of a hard or tough shell around an edible kernel.

Usage examples:

He was cracking nuts with his teeth

verb

Butt (someone) with one's head.

Usage examples:

I thought he was going to nut me in the face

abbreviation

(in the uk) national union of teachers.

noun

A ghost.

Usage examples:

Judge steve evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one …

verb

Frighten; unnerve.

Usage examples:

They spooked a couple of grizzly bears

noun

A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men.

Usage examples:

For most of the history of christianity there are reports of satan having sex with humans, either a…

noun

A female evil spirit who is believed to have sex with men while they are sleeping

noun

A gullible or easily deceived person.

Usage examples:

If suckers will actually pay to do the work, more fool them

verb

Fool or trick (someone).

Usage examples:

They got suckered into accepting responsibility

noun

A person who believes everything you say and is therefore easy to deceive

Usage examples:

Josie’s a sucker for burnt almond ice cream., my car won’t start again, and hopefully between the t…