browsin' the dictionary
1111 words beginning with a

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aaughtifying - Aa state of mind that can make the most innocent things into something naughty.

e.g., I could see that she was naughtifying my fingers in her mind.

submitted by Frank

aazing - Like amazing, but not quite.

e.g., The 30-story building was aazing.

submitted by FPM2K - (www)

aba - Loose robe worn by Fremen women, usually black. (ED. The robe or the women or both?)

e.g., She wore an ABA.

submitted by Alex

abacoral - The backbone of a snail.

e.g., Hello, class. We're going to look for abacorals today.

submitted by Squackle! - (www)

abal - Used by the younger generation to label a person as dumb, uncouth, unsophisticated.

e.g., You're just an Abal.

submitted by Hillol Sobhan

abandonded - Abandoned. I need this alternative spelling -- because I keep mistyping it this way.

e.g., He gave up and abandonded all pretense that he was merely shouting at the goat.

submitted by HD Fowler

abbamatically - The tendency for an unbearably cloying song to repeat over and over in your head all day after hearing it on the radio.

e.g., "More Than a Woman" has been playing abbamatically in my head since breakfast.

submitted by Stephen Mize

abbeverate - To feed a person a drink, to offer a drink, or provide a drink.

e.g., I'm going to abbeverate our guests before they die of thirst.

submitted by Louise Van Hine - (www)

abdicate - To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

e.g., If you drink 24 beers a day you must be prepared to abdicate seeing your toes(?) again.

submitted by Chris

abdicted - Of someone, who is compulsively driven to do sit-ups or stomach crunches, or is so turned on by well-defined abdominal muscles, that no other physical attribute matters.

e.g., She wouldn't go out with me because I was too chubby. How was I to know she was abdicted?

submitted by Mitchel Yerzy

abecidofugy - A discussion or conversation about a topic that most people would find irrelevant or utterly trivial.

e.g., James and Lee's conversation comparing the color of a giraffe's tongue to the color of a newly paved road was a complete abecidofugy.

submitted by Ed Jarosz

abeer! - Amen, usually as a type of thanks.

e.g., Paul: "I'll get the next round of sodas." Group (in unision): "Abeer!"

submitted by Eric Slater

abella - Someone who "owns" everything possible.

e.g., That abella rules at Counter-strike.

submitted by erf

aberzombie - One who wears only Abercrombie & Fitch clothing. (ED. Don't Aberzombies tend to be mindless followers lacking individual personalities and taste?)

e.g., Trust me, you're not his type. He's only into other Aberzombies like himself.

submitted by Lester - (www)

abibliophobia - The Macmillan Dictionary: the fear of running out of things to read.

e.g., "What better respite from abibliophobia than working in a library?"

submitted by HD Fowler

abiontic - Possessing the quality of imparting ambience.

e.g., The incense and portmanteau (Say what?!) were so ambiontic, I thought I was on the French Riviera.

submitted by Bernard Levine

abisselfa - "A," by itself.

e.g., I swear on my mother's grave, officer, I've never used an abisselfa before tonight. And I wouldn't have done it then except for peer pressure. Let me off with a warning and I promise I'll never do it again.

submitted by HD Fowler - (www)

abluprius - To be "gay," to act in a gay manner. A response to someone saying something "gay" instead of actually using the word. Jeff Dunham mentions a blue Prius in his comedy routine and calls it "gay."

e.g., You know, when you say that, you're being abluprius.

submitted by Kimberly Raiser - (www)

abm - Anti-Boyfriend Mechanism. The feeling one experiences when his boyfriend does something embarrassing or stupid and he wishes he wasn't dating him.

e.g., Jason gave me the worst ABM today. We were just sitting in the movies and he started ƒarting and then laughing.

submitted by natasha

abnatural - An obscene violation of what is natural.

e.g., McDonald's food, industrial pollution, and repression of happiness are all abnatural, screaming contradictions to healthy existence.

submitted by Heather Freedman

abnormous - Large to an absurd degree.

e.g., Look at the size of Chris's head. It's ... it's ... abnormous. To top it off -- so to speak -- he's bald and has a pony tail. What's his deal with wearing shorts year-round, anyway?

submitted by Chris Dunkel

abocus - A person who keeps tab of how many Aboriginal friends she has to show how racially accepting she is. Plural: aboci or abocuses.

e.g., Step to the rail. No, not you. The abocus to your left.

submitted by Dani Solomon

abode - A board. A piece of lumber used to build a structure.

e.g., Is that abode fence?

submitted by zcarp

abodeaceous - Of a glorious and affordable form of rental accomodation amidst otherwise overpriced and substandard rental abodes on the market. (Used by students and artists.)

e.g., A modern two-bedroom cottage, with a gorgeous bathroom, a good kitchen, courtyard and part-deck? Near to the city with off-street parking? For under $400? Abodeaceous.

submitted by Samara Mitchell

abomally - A unique or unusually severe violation of human values.

e.g., Putting ketchup on mint-chocolate-chip ice cream is an abomally.

submitted by steve

aboot - About. Used to emphasize Canadianess.

e.g., "You're Canadian?" "What are you talking aboot, eh?"

submitted by mike n - (www)

aborable - Exceptionally cute yet insufferably boring.

e.g., At first, I was pleasantly surprised by my blind date, but soon realized he was aborable when he continually turned the topic of conversation to his Michael Bolton collection.

submitted by chey

abortional - To make an exceptionally poor attempt at something.

e.g., The striker had an abortional first half hour.

submitted by Tom Taylor

abra-kebabra - The inevitability that the kebab you are consuming at 3 am after one too many beers with your mates will reappear in the very near future.

e.g., We had almost made it home after a big night out. Suddenly, abra-kebabra. Right in the back seat of the car.

submitted by Kim

abracadabbler - An amateur magician.

e.g., No, that's not what we had in mind. We want a professional magician, not an abracadabbler.

submitted by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt - (www)

abracahadron - (n.) The hypothetical subatomic particle (a meson) thought to be the motive force behind “magic.” Like all mesons, the abracahadron is comprised of quark and antiquark (aka “snark,” q.v.) pairs. Unlike common mesons, however, the abracahadron appears to be comprised of two pairs of each, quark-snark-quark-snark. Common, “everyday,” “white” magic seems to derive from a ‘Charm’ quark and a ‘Lucky’ snark paired with a ‘Strange’ quark and a ‘Funny’ snark. Assuming this paradigm to be correct, a curse would be comprised of a ‘Down’ quark and an ‘Out’ snark paired with a ‘Bottom’ quark and an ‘Ugly’ snark. Illusions would be a ‘Top’ quark and a ‘Sham’ snark with a ‘Strange’ quark and a ‘Funny’ snark. The bizarre ‘black magic’ abracahadron has only one quark, ‘Up,’ combined, inexplicably, with three snarks, ‘Ugly,’ ‘Sham,’ and ‘Out.’ This horrific amalgam -- generally existing as a plasma (in the rare occasions when available for study (a highly dangerous activity, which cannot be too strongly discouraged)) is often referred to as “Ugly-Up” gas.

e.g., “Aha! See! The cloud-chamber shows the collision, and decay, of hadrons -- in this case, abracahadrons -- ” “What?! your silly magic particles?!” “Yes! And I have proof! . . . wait, this is bad.” “What is?” “These aren’t just abracahadrons: they’re ugly-up gas!” “What does that mean?” “Run!”

submitted by Scott M. Ellsworth

abracapocus - Hybrid of abracadabra and hocus pocus. Was used by Bugs Bunny when battling a vampire and he turned into a bat with a vampire's head.

e.g., Presto! Chango! Abracapocus! Hocuscadabra! A la peanut butter sandwiches!

submitted by Robert

abraham lincoln's doctor's dog - Also ALDD, or "Aldy." Descriptive term for a movie or show (or even a character) cobbled together from whatever's popular at the time. From Disney's Barefoot Executive (1971) -- Kurt Russell's character is trying to put together a successful TV show. He decides that since shows about Lincoln are popular, as are shows about doctors and shows about dogs, that a show about Lincoln's doctor's dog will be a hit.

e.g., Lost, for instance, despite its creativity (it's actually a pretty interesting show), is Survivor, plus ER or CSI, plus Law and Order, plus Over There. It is thus an Abraham Lincoln's Doctor's Dog show.

submitted by Scott M. Ellsworth - (www)

abrakazappa - A secret word meaning "Open the door."

e.g., Hannah approached the door and exclaimed "Abrakazappa!" The door opened immediately.

submitted by Hannah Guidry

abreast of fresh hair - Ahead of the pack when it comes to knowing all about the latest in hair styles, coloring, treatment.

e.g., A hairdresser or stylist or model especially might like to keep abreast of fresh hair.

submitted by Paul Edic - (www)

abrief iate - To shorten activity as well as words and phrases.

e.g., OMG -- hv 2 abrief iate da mtg -- mst B at schl 4 tst in 5 mins!

submitted by Charlie Lesko

abs - Asshole Behavior Scale. Logarithmic scale from 1 to 10 used to measure how much of an asshole someone is being. Similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes with each whole number representing an intensity 10 times greater than the next lower number.

e.g., Chris was extremely cranky again today. Had to be at least a 6.2 on the ABS.

submitted by zztzed - (www)

absentenious - To be blown into many pieces.

e.g., The bomb made Chris absentenious.

submitted by Christian Harrison

absinthe - A liquid heart medication.

e.g., Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

submitted by S. Berliner, III - (www)

absitively - Absolutely and positively, with extreme certainty. Sometimes still wrong, though.

e.g., The Chicago Sun Times was absitively sure that Dewey had beaten Truman in 1948.

submitted by Frederick Carraher

absobloodyexactly - Used in conversation when someone says exactly what you were thinking.

e.g., "What do you think of the Welsh?" "A little inbred." "Absobloodyexactly."

submitted by death

absogoddamnlutely - Ultimate absolutely. (One of a group of words relating to certainty: absogoddamnlutely, absopositively, absotively, absotively-posilutely, absotivelyposilutely.)

e.g., I am absogodamnlutely sure I've used this word hundreds of times.

submitted by Sharlene

absolucid - A portmanteau word: absolute plus lucid.

e.g., John meditates because one day he hopes to become absolucid.

submitted by Michael - (www)

absoludacris, absoludacras - Something absolutely ludicrous--say, Mr. T, for example.

e.g., 1. Drugs are bad. Drugs are absoludacris. 2. Ludicras is absoludacris.

submitted by gary blaney

absoludicrous - The peak of ridiculousness. Absolutely ludicrous.

e.g., Chris, your blue hair, with what little there is of it on top, looks absoludicrous with that long ponytail. People can tell you're bald.

submitted by Misterkenny - (www)

absolut - The extreme or epitome of. Pinnacle.

e.g., He always gives us absolut intimidation.

submitted by Isaac

absolute relativism - This paradoxical concept regards everything that can be known or asserted as only a relative or partial truth. The concept itself, however, is held with absolute certitude that entertains no doubt and asks no questions.

e.g., "Cedric, notice how Professor Strumpeter will always grade you lower if you ever assert that something is established and beyond reasonable doubt. Like a latter day Socrates, he wants you to question even the existence of your own living mother! But notice with what doctrinaire bombast he defends this doctrine of absolute relativism, while he blithely goes home each evening to eat dinner prepared by his own questionably existent mother!

submitted by Dennis R. Ridley

absonotly - Used when the intent is to most definitely decline.

e.g., I absonotly won't do that.

submitted by Dave Howell

absopause - When, for some odd reason, everyone shuts up and listens when you talk. Rare.

e.g., During the absopause, everyone heard Rob's plan.

submitted by ryan

absopositilutely - "Absolutely" and "positively combined together in different segments.

e.g., You are absopositilutely right.

submitted by Sanje86

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