Stooges - English meaning

noun

A person who ranks below a senior person.

Usage examples:

The managing director and his assistant

verb

(of a person or animal) hit (someone or something) with the head or horns.

Usage examples:

She butted him in the chest

noun

A push or blow, especially one given with the head.

Usage examples:

The characters can fight hand to hand using punches, kicks, nudges, butts, combos…

noun

The person or thing at which criticism or ridicule is directed.

Usage examples:

His singing is the butt of dozens of jokes

noun

An animal, as distinct from a human being.

Usage examples:

Night sounds of birds and other creatures

noun

Any living thing, esp. an animal

Usage examples:

It seems clear to me that people are creatures of emotion.

noun

A person who is given menial tasks to do, especially a junior in an office.

Usage examples:

I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine

noun

A person who does boring or unpleasant jobs that people who are considered more important do not want to do

Usage examples:

It is possible to become a junior account executive without previous experience - although you woul…

verb

Prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.

Usage examples:

A brave policewoman foiled the armed robbery

noun

The track or scent of a hunted animal.

noun

Metal hammered or rolled into a thin flexible sheet, used chiefly for covering or wrapping food.

Usage examples:

Aluminium foil

noun

A faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service.

Usage examples:

The dictator's henchman

noun

A person who is loyal to and works for someone in a position of authority and is willing to help that person even by hurting others or by committing crimes

Usage examples:

Although the president kept himself above the fray, his henchmen were blaming everyone.

noun

A tool or implement, especially one for precision work.

Usage examples:

A surgical instrument

verb

Equip (something) with measuring instruments.

Usage examples:

Engineers have instrumented rockets to study the upper atmosphere

noun

An object, such as a piano, guitar, or flute, which is played to produce musical sounds

Usage examples:

He plays saxophone, trumpet, and several other instruments., surgical instruments

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A follower or subordinate of a powerful person, typically one who is unscrupulous or carries out orders unquestioningly.

Usage examples:

One of hitler's myrmidons

noun

Someone who follows and obeys a powerful person or authority, even when this means doing bad things for them

Usage examples:

They each claimed that they were only doing their job - the standard reply from the myrmidons of au…

noun

A chess piece of the smallest size and value, that moves one square forwards along its file if unobstructed (or two on the first move), or one square diagonally forwards when making a capture. each player begins with eight pawns on the second rank, and can promote a pawn to become any other piece (typically a queen) if it reaches the opponent's end of the board.

Usage examples:

The game of chess with sword-wielding pawns and deadly queens is both dramatic and mightily beautif…

verb

Deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.

Usage examples:

I pawned the necklace to cover the loan

noun

An object left as security for money lent.

Usage examples:

The bank did lend money upon pawns at low interest

noun

A dog of a breed (of which there are several varieties) with a curly coat that is often ornamentally clipped. poodle breeds are classified by size.

Usage examples:

The dogs included shih-tzus, dachshunds, lhasa apsos, bearded collies, corgis, chihuahuas, poodles,…

verb

Move or travel in a leisurely manner.

Usage examples:

The chap who just wants to poodle along the road at 50 mph

noun

A type of dog with curly hair that is usually cut only on parts of its body

noun

A movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.

Usage examples:

A puppet show

noun

A person's assistant or close associate, especially one who has less authority than that person.

Usage examples:

Sherlock holmes' bumbling sidekick watson

noun

A friend, or a person who works with someone more important

Usage examples:

The course will focus on fictional master sleuth sherlock holmes and his sidekick dr. watson.

noun

A female domestic servant who performs menial tasks.

Usage examples:

I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy

verb

Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.

Usage examples:

I was skivvying for that brixton family

noun

A person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning

Usage examples:

He treats me like a skivvy., i wouldn't strip down to my skivvies for any amount of money., skivvy …

adjective

Lower in rank or position.

Usage examples:

His subordinate officers

noun

A person under the authority or control of another within an organization.

Usage examples:

He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates

verb

Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else.

Usage examples:

Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency

noun

A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.

Usage examples:

Gardening tools

verb

Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover).

Usage examples:

Volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold

noun

A piece of equipment that you use to help you do a job, esp. something that you use with your hands to make or repair something

Usage examples:

The only tools you need for this job are a hammer and a screwdriver., we believe the new law will b…

noun

A person lower in status or rank.

Usage examples:

She was shouting orders at underlings between gulps of coffee

noun

A person of low rank and little authority who works for someone more important

Usage examples:

She surrounded herself with underlings who were too afraid of her to answer back.