English Words: E

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easy preynoun

A prey animal who is easily captured by a predator and cannot fight back effectively.

easy streetnoun

Chiefly preceded by on: a carefree lifestyle, especially as a result of becoming wealthy, or an easy situation.

easy-goingadj

Alternative spelling of easygoing.

easy-oarverb

To stop rowing.

easybeatnoun

A team that is easy to beat; a team ranked towards the bottom of the competition ladder.

easycorenoun

Music that verges toward easy listening, or that is less hardcore than comparable styles.

easygoingadj

Calm, relaxed, casual and informal.

easygoingnessnoun

The quality of being easygoing.

easyishadj

Quite easy

eatverb

To ingest; to be ingested.

eat a bag of dicksintj

Alternative form of eat a dick.

eat a dickintj

A dismissive remark.

eat and leave no crumbsverb

Synonym of eat (“to be very good at something; to rule; to rock”).

eat and runverb

To consume a meal/snack quickly, then soon after depart immediately and/or in a hurry.

Eat at Joe'sphrase

A generic commercial slogan.

eat awayverb

To physically corrode or erode (something) gradually.

eat away atverb

To erode.

eat crowverb

To recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, especially by admitting that one has made a humiliating error.

eat cuntverb

Synonym of eat pussy.

eat downverb

Synonym of eat (“to be very good; to rule”).

eat from the palm of someone's handverb

Alternative form of eat out of the palm of someone's hand.

eat humble pieverb

To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.

eat intoverb

To consume gradually, especially by erosion.

eat like an animalverb

To eat large amounts of food, especially when in a greedy and sloppy manner.

eat my dustintj

An in-your-face mockery to a losing rival, especially in a race

eat my shortsphrase

An irreverent rebuke or dismissal.

eat one's feelingsverb

To turn to comfort food in order to deal with one's emotional problems.

eat one's hatverb

Used in a result clause to express disbelief in a proposition expressed in a conditional clause.

eat one's head offverb

Of an animal: to cost more to feed than it is worth.

eat one's heart outverb

To feel overwhelming sorrow, jealousy, or longing; to grieve.

eat one's ownverb

To turn on and attack members of one's own group or clique.

eat one's own dog foodverb

To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.

eat one's prideverb

Alternative form of swallow one's pride.

eat one's termsverb

To study for the bar, in order to practise law.

eat one's Wheatiesverb

To prepare or fortify oneself for an activity requiring exertion.

eat one's wordsverb

To regret or retract what one has said.

eat one's youngverb

To betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation.

eat outverb

To dine at a restaurant or such public place.

eat out of someone's handverb

To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone.

eat out of the palm of someone's handverb

To obey, cooperate with, or believe with no resistance or hesitation; to be completely charmed by.

eat pussyverb

To perform cunnilingus.

eat shitverb

To fall and land on one's face.

eat someone aliveverb

To consume a prey animal that is still alive, as many predators do.

eat someone for breakfastverb

To beat easily; to trounce.

eat someone out of house and homeverb

To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

eat someone's assverb

To perform anilingus on someone

eat someone's dustverb

To be outrun.

eat someone's heartverb

To destroy and humiliate someone.

eat someone's lunchverb

To best or defeat someone thoroughly; to make short work of.

eat the leekverb

To be compelled to take back one's words or put up with insulting treatment.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter E contains 18,836 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 377 pages, and you are currently viewing page 22. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

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